Has our focus on authentic assessment developed a blind spot? Authentic assessment asks students to use the same set of knowledge, competencies and attitudes they’ll use as graduates, connecting ...

This is the first part of a two-part story looking at how MIT researchers are developing playful assessments to measure student growth. Read part two to learn about how one school is implementing this ...

Designing an educational studies course for international learners meant rethinking assessment, from traditional exams to a more practical, student-informed approach. Here’s what worked All students ...

When the dust settled after this year’s legislative session, New York state’s 2015 teacher evaluation law had been effectively dismantled. Now, details are emerging about what that might look like in ...

Explore the ins and outs of having students complete real-world assessment tasks. From the guiding principles to how to implement authentic assessments, this page supplies you with what you need to ...

Seems like it’s easier every day to trip over accounts of people campaigning against testing. If it’s not parents holding their kids out of tests, it’s one group or another arguing that tests don’t ...

Engaging in authentic assessment as a principle and practice takes time, effort, and intention from both faculty and students. For smaller classes, students might have a semester-long project that ...

If you told me that students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic concept that generally isn’t taught until the seventh or eighth grade—in as little as 90 ...