If we truly want to help students learn better, we should choose instruments that support learning instead of ones that stress our kids.

KICD Chief Executive Officer Prof Charles Ong’ondo said Senior School is the fourth and final level of basic education under CBC, offering learners a pre-university or pre-career experience organised ...

With increasing numbers of multilingual learners, representing over 20 languages and 65% of the student population, the ...

An exterior shot of the Kentucky Department of Education at 300 Sower Boulevard in Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 7, 2025. Tasha Poullard tpoullard@herald-leader.com Kentucky students performed ...

Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which summarizes achievement at the end of a unit, formative assessment happens ...

Formative assessment plays a central role in effective teaching. It is not something done at the end of instruction, but rather a continuous process woven into the learning itself. As Bell and Cowie ...

What is summative assessment data used for, how can we ensure it is purposeful, valid, and reliable, and how can school leaders use it to inform school improvement and to improve student outcomes?

Objectives It has been shown that assessment strongly affects students’ performance. A deeper insight needs to be gained into the interplay of assessment and learning. The aim of the current study was ...

The Office of Personnel Management last Friday quietly replaced the privacy impact assessment for the governmentwide email system it has been using to send mass email blasts to the entirety of the ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...