What is Assessment? Why is it important? Assessment is a core component of all teaching, learning and curricular activities. Assessments provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate how deeply ...

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 ...

Pratt Institute recognizes the central role of faculty in developing, reviewing, and assessing curriculum, pedagogy, and student learning. In all decisions regarding the planning and practice of ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

This excerpt from our upcoming book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, highlights student reflection as a tool for assessing the learning of English-language learners. However, we’ve found these ...

NCF 2023 Approach to Assessment: The National Steering Committee for National Curriculum Frameworks has crafted the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) in alignment with the ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

Built on the constructs of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Culturally Responsive Assessment argues for an intentional focus on conducting assessment in ways that recognize and support the needs of our ...

What and how students learn depends to a major extent on how they think they will be assessed, (Biggs, Tang and Kennedy, 2022 p.182) Assessment and feedback are pivotal concepts in a student's ...

To embed the skills students will need to thrive beyond their studies, lecturers need to assess how they’re going to use them in their future lives. Enter authentic assessment – a holistic approach ...