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 ...

The CORE Team in New Student and Family Programs consists of 20 student leaders selected to lead their peers in programming for new students and family members at Northwestern University. Throughout ...

New York’s Education Department responded to standardized testing during COVID with restraint, but the Biden administration chose to embrace a doomed mandate, rejecting all requests for waivers ...

In alignment with Northwestern’s commitment to excellent teaching and the personal and intellectual growth of our students, the University is dedicated to the assessment of student learning outcomes ...

Effective assessment is a cornerstone of teaching and learning, providing educators with valuable insights into student progress, understanding, and achievement. Whether you're teaching a large ...

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, ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

New research shows learning erosion is real—but evidence-anchored design, governance, and assessment can turn AI into an ...

The pandemic has introduced a great deal of hardship into many students’ lives, which may make it difficult for them to learn. Disruptions to students’ mental and emotional health, social systems of ...

Now that you have made the switch to teach your courses online, the next thing on your mind are student assessments. How will assessing student learning differ from what you have done before? In what ...

Communications Learning Assessment (CLA) supports formative assessment in medical education by providing a structured ...