Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

All Council on Social Work Education programs measure and report student learning outcomes. Students are assessed on their mastery of the competencies that comprise the accreditation standards of the ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

Indirect Measures of student learning ask students to reflect on or self-assess their learning rather than demonstrate it. This can include measures of students’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

In today’s evolving educational landscape, effective student assessment goes beyond multiple-choice tests and letter grades. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe ...

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, ...

In 2024, CU Boulder identified the need for an intensive cross-campus focus on creating and assessing program learning outcomes to support student success, guide academic planning and meet the ...