All educational fixes face the same problem—how do you measure success? The simplest method is to attempt to measure the quantity of learning, saying that students achieve more learning or less ...

Generative AI changes what homework can prove. Learn which skills remain measurable, what breaks, and how instructors and students can adapt responsibly.

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The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

In an attempt to head off a government-ordered system to measure student learning, the two higher-education associations representing the nation’s public colleges are calling on their members to ...

There is a popular quote attributed to management expert Peter Drucker: “What gets measured gets improved.” In education, the mantra is equally true. However, since I began working in edtech five ...

If you have ever conducted an online search to figure out what adaptive learning is, you probably came across numerous articles with vastly different definitions of it and ended up more confused than ...

For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue. Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt ...

We know the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning. Thus, the question: How do we assess what our students have learned in distance and ...

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Supporters of the “growth model” approach—measuring individual student growth over time—argue that it is a positive alternative to the single end-of-the-year tests often used to satisfy the ...