OUR national educational policies have not paid much attention to improving students’ assessment, which has become a major hurdle to students’ learning. The prevailing traditional assessment in its ...

Artificial Intelligence has rapidly reshaped the educational landscape. Across districts and campuses, conversations are unfolding about how, and whether to integrate AI into teaching and learning.

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

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 ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Effective assessment is a cornerstone of teaching and learning, providing educators with valuable insights into student progress, understanding, and achievement. Whether you're teaching a large ...

Many teachers use exit tickets to assess student learning, as described by The Teacher Toolkit: Before students leave, they have to hand you a “ticket” filled out with an answer to a question, a ...

Back in March, Inside Higher Ed published a brief news story about two nursing professors at Widener University who were caught on a video that went viral, revealing that to each other they had said ...

When I initially envisioned writing this piece, I did not think that I would be writing it at a time when classes in many universities in the U.S. and worldwide would be conducted remotely and/or ...