This year, the conference will focus on establishing a learning-focused agenda for classroom assessments involving disciplinary experts, educational practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Our ...

Designing for All Learning Styles. Over the last decade, we’ve seen a significant increase in schools prioritizing collaborative and flexible design to accommodate different learning styles. Since ...

But getting at the root of these issues takes expertise and resources, and schools don’t always have enough coverage to meet the presenting needs. As schools grapple with our new realities, we must ...

In 2014, faculty and staff at Pratt Institute initiated a series of collaborative efforts focused on teaching, learning and assessment, with the goal of supporting student, professional and ...

Louis Volante, Danielle Beckett, Formative assessment and the contemporary classroom: Synergies and tensions between research and practice, Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de ...

Rearranging the desks and tables depending on the learning activity signals to students that they also need a shift in ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (cats) Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are informal feedback gathering techniques to explore what students are or are not learning, how well they are applying it ...

How to address bias in the classroom and in assessment in five steps. Biases can affect personal interactions, course design, learning activities, assessment and institutional practices, thus it is ...

The 2022 Tennessee rule requires a functional behavioral assessment under several circumstances, including when a pattern of behavior disrupts learning or threatens harm, the student’s IEP team ...

Supervised exams are a traditional form of identity-verified assessment (IVA) to help combat cheating and ensure that students’ submitted work is their own. An alternative IVA design incorporates an ...

Collaborative activities like exam co-design workshops (where students try their hand at developing questions/prompts/problems before a test) and two-stage exams (where students take an exam ...