Assessment of course quality, student learning, and professor effectiveness has become paramount in many of today’s universities and colleges. We seem always to strive for a better way to assess our ...

Learning objectives are statements that specify what students will know or be able to do as a result of earning their degrees. Effective objectives are usually expressed as knowledge, skills, or ...

As stated above, each Student Learning Objective is associated with a baseline measured by at least one pre-assessment, and a student growth target measured by at least one post-assessment. A growth ...

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, ...

There is not a great deal of contemporary literature on active learning in a large group setting that does not involve using blended or flipped learning. Lectures have traditionally employed a teacher ...

The extent to which COVID-19 has disrupted students’ learning—and the questions of how schools will provide the support students need as a result—can feel too big to grasp. To understand how schools ...

The findings are then communicated to appropriate members of the faculty used to develop and implement curricular improvements. Assurance of Learning (AOL) reporting is based at the academic program ...

Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...

Institutionalized during the Chinese Han Dynasty, the civil service examination became the symbol of meritocracy and the hope for a new generation of talented elites to replace the old. In a time when ...