Project-based learning is nothing new. More than 100 years ago, progressive educator William Heard Kilpatrick published “The Project Method,” a monograph that took the first stab at defining ...

This post is by Adriana Martinez, the Innovation Program Manager at CCSSO. For years, states have taken the lead in exploring how to create better ways to assess students. In 2016, New Hampshire ...

In a survey conducted in mid-2023 of more than 1,600 human resource professionals by the firm SHL, which makes human resources software that includes assessments, 40% of respondents said they planned ...

Project-based assessments are what education organizations ETS and the Carnegie Foundation are envisioning to prepare and measure students’ skills. Companies have long evaluated new employees by ...

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 ...

The Description Enhanced Assessments (DEA) project examined the use of description as an assessment accommodation for students with visual and print disabilities, by investigating student ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

MeasureUp, a global provider of digital assessment and certification readiness solutions, has won the 2026 International ...

If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a ...