For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker readiness. But let’s be honest, in a world where technology is evolving ...

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 ...

Educators are moving beyond one-off exams toward authentic, competency-based, and experiential assessment methods that capture the full scope of student learning. From e-portfolios to AI-powered ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

Maya Angelou once said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” It is time for us to do better! As an organization that grounds its work in the potential of ...

In today’s evolving educational landscape, effective student assessment goes beyond multiple-choice tests and letter grades. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe ...

Liberty Munson is the Director of Psychometrics at Microsoft and serves as the Vice Chair of the IT Certification Council. In today’s competitive IT labor market, where demonstrated skills are highly ...

Ghanaian students are trained to focus on testing. Wikimedia Commons Formal education in the Gold Coast, now Ghana, was introduced during the 15th century when Europeans came to its shores to trade.