Once your Foundations are in place, and you've selected the learning outcome(s) for your annual assessment, it's time to think about how to assess the outcome. How can you best understand the impact ...

Direct assessment, or gathering evidence demonstrating exactly what students did, or did not, learn, provides the most helpful information about student learning. While indirect assessment can ...

Building frequent checks for understanding into lessons can help teachers spot learning gaps in real time and adjust ...

One of the many responsibilities that falls to school district leaders is whether to use an interim assessment—one that’s given every couple of months—to measure student progress. These tests can ...

Western Michigan University touts itself as a student-centered research university. As such, students are the main focus of our mission. We must be continually concerned with what our students learn ...