There is a heated debate right now around AI and assessment. This is understandable given that AI’s language and reasoning ...

An exterior shot of the Kentucky Department of Education at 300 Sower Boulevard in Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 7, 2025. Tasha Poullard tpoullard@herald-leader.com Kentucky students performed ...

Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which summarizes achievement at the end of a unit, formative assessment happens ...

What is summative assessment data used for, how can we ensure it is purposeful, valid, and reliable, and how can school leaders use it to inform school improvement and to improve student outcomes?

Objectives It has been shown that assessment strongly affects students’ performance. A deeper insight needs to be gained into the interplay of assessment and learning. The aim of the current study was ...

The Office of Personnel Management last Friday quietly replaced the privacy impact assessment for the governmentwide email system it has been using to send mass email blasts to the entirety of the ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT: This article looks to raise awareness among practitioners and researchers of the potential of the writing plan as an important focus for formative assessment for informing teacher’s planning ...

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals.

Ensuring assessment or monitoring activities remain useful and effective over time involves reviewing and adjusting the approach based on lessons from the implementation and the use of the information ...