It’s easy to test but hard to teach. The next chapter in Texas education policy must start with a bold but simple shift.

Your authentic assessment may be assessing irrelevant student characteristics instead of learning outcomes. Authentic features such as an emergency room setting or board meeting may create additional ...

“This reduces the quality of the experience of answering those questions.” Summatic is an interactive learning platform for university STEM courses, developed by academics from the University of ...

Using authentic assessments also allows instructors to measure students’ ability to apply concepts, create products, and other higher levels of learning that would be difficult to measure on a ...

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 ...

When authentic assessment involves collaboration, this not only challenges students to think about the purpose of their learning for their discipline, society and for themselves and where they take ...

Assessment for learning is all about providing students and teachers the information they need to best chart the course to that learning destination.

We profile a high school where students have to explain and defend their ideas in major year-long projects in order to earn their diplomas.

They are authentic applications of what has been learned. Wiley Education Services offers some examples and strategies to develop and create rubrics for authentic assessments. The context of applying ...

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 ...