Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

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 ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

Q&A: Toward Better Assessments in Online Courses Online learning offers instructors an opportunity to rethink their approach to assessment. A new book hopes to spur that conversation.

Adding activities and assessments to enhance your students' learning experiences in UB Learns. The following section provides guides on how to build activities and assessments into your UB Learns ...

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 ...

An assessment expert explains how the technique helps teachers find and address the holes in student learning.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...

The information-based economy calls for substantially new forms of assessment, and therein lies a major hurdle for American schools.

Screenshot of the Parallel Learning tutoring and assessment interface. Image Credits: Parallel Learning “There’s just a drastic shortage of actual providers,” Heldfond said.