You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

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 ...

This post is by Ace Parsi, the Personalized Learning Partnership Manager for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and Susan Lyons, an associate at the National Center for the Improvement of ...

Communications Learning Assessment (CLA) supports formative assessment in medical education by providing a structured ...

Student peer assessments provide opportunities for classmates to give and receive meaningful feedback, building valuable skills for both reviewers and recipients. Reviewers develop the ability to ...

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They also expect that their children will do as well or better in learning the ...

Assessment and Research leads the division of Student Life’s efforts at data-informed decision making though collaborative consultation, planning, evaluation, research and educational initiatives. We ...

Having teachers create their own tests is one way to counter the backlash to “overtesting” and give teachers better data to improve instruction. Commercially prepared tests often fail to provide ...

Using the same case studies in your class repeatedly can get boring after a while. Students will probably miss out on a lot of the cutting-edge developments in the industry. How can educators refresh ...

December 29, 2025 - Betty Reid Soskin was the nation’s oldest national park ranger. She passed away on Dec. 21 at 104 years old. To honor her, we bring you an episode from 2021, about how a California ...

The 74 reports that U.S. eighth graders' science skills and interest have declined post-COVID, with proficiency falling from ...