Each day, as students enter my biology classroom, someone will inevitably ask the question, “What are we doing today?” My response always attempts to shift their frame of thought from the ...

For the past three months, The Chronicle‘s reporters have been writing a series of articles collectively titled Measuring Stick, describing the consequences of a higher-education system that refuses ...

Colleges have increased the number of ways they assess their students’ learning, but their use of the data to inform changes in curriculum has not kept pace, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

It's not a new question, but it's certainly a divisive one -- how to best measure student learning. As the Department of Education works toward finding a way to assess student learning beyond what ...

When the Every Student Succeeds Act was enacted, speculation swirled that states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine whether ...

In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the research addressed in the Deeper Learning Report released by the National Research ...

In the introductory overview, we highlighted the significant problems and false positives that accompany current Large Language Model (LLM) detection tools. The inability to identify LLM output, plus ...

Most organizations use some type of performance or test assessment to measure the effectiveness of their learning and development programs, according to a Sept. 12 report from the Association for ...

Parents, educators and policymakers have faced rising concerns about what students have lost academically during a year of school closures and online learning. Until recently, however, they’ve lacked ...