When the dust settled after this year’s legislative session, New York state’s 2015 teacher evaluation law had been effectively dismantled. Now, details are emerging about what that might look like in ...

Getting students workplace-ready is a challenge. By partnering with industry, lecturers can offer authentic learning experiences and assessments that equip students for future success in their chosen ...

Explore the ins and outs of having students complete real-world assessment tasks. From the guiding principles to how to implement authentic assessments, this page supplies you with what you need to ...

Traditional assessments focus on rote memorisation and regurgitation of facts. Assessments such as multiple-choice quizzes (MCQs) or standard essays are often thought to lack relevance and the ability ...

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

A mentor once told me that ‘why’ is often the elusive, if not the most uncomfortable question, yet the most illuminating, if approached with sobriety and objectivity. As the national exams trudge on, ...

If you told me that students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic concept that generally isn’t taught until the seventh or eighth grade—in as little as 90 ...

When the dust settled after this year’s legislative session, New York state’s 2015 teacher evaluation law had been effectively dismantled. Now, details are emerging about what that might look like in ...

Security Officers countercheck exam materials after being opened at the Kibra Deputy County Commissioners Office on February 23, 2022. [Samson Wire, Standard] A mentor once told me that ‘why’ is often ...