These alarming trends are a stark reminder of why robust assessment and accountability systems are so essential. That’s why the Trump administration is committed to returning education to the states ...

Robust assessment design is more important than ever in the battle to maintain academic integrity, say Nguyen Bui and Simon Feros Blooming illegal services make it tremendously difficult for the ...

Having teachers create their own tests is one way to counter the backlash to “overtesting” and give teachers better data to improve instruction. Commercially prepared tests often fail to provide ...

Changes in the higher education sector have created the perfect environment for students to cheat - and get away with it. New research shows that can students cheat on virtually any type of assessment ...

Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about educational programs to improve student learning and development. All academic programs at RIT engage in program ...

When assessment focuses only on a final submission, educators must infer how that work was produced. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has made visible this flaw in how we measure learning.

The Committee on the Foundations of Assessment produced this report, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to review and synthesize advances in the cognitive and measurement ...

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 ...