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 ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

In higher education circles, there is something of a feeding frenzy surrounding the issue of assessment. The federal government, due to release a proposed rating system later this fall, wants ...

The Division of Evaluation, Assessment and Education Research within the School of Medicine provides expertise, advising and administrative support related to program evaluation, performance ...

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

Abstract Twenty teachers working in elementary and secondary schools were interviewed from 2 school districts in southern Ontario, Canada about their understanding and use of particular formative ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect job description for Paul Leather. He oversees state and local partnerships for the Center for Innovation and Education. Let’s get ...

One of the most important decisions that will affect whether Florida students are prepared for successful futures will take place this summer — and most parents probably aren’t aware it’s even ...

Time can provide important insight into student performance. Too often it is used only as a constraint. Over the past four years, discussions about grading and assessment have turned towards questions ...

We study the efficiency of administering different subsets of a large collection of items in a sample survey to different people to estimate the distribution of several correlated traits. The designs ...

The Florida Department of Education has released examples of questions that caused math textbooks to be rejected in the 2022-2023 school year curriculum. Thes examples come from an earlier report, ...