Has our focus on authentic assessment developed a blind spot? Authentic assessment asks students to use the same set of knowledge, competencies and attitudes they’ll use as graduates, connecting ...

Seems like it’s easier every day to trip over accounts of people campaigning against testing. If it’s not parents holding their kids out of tests, it’s one group or another arguing that tests don’t ...

Authentic assessment is a type of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of knowledge and skills. Below are some examples of ...

Designing an educational studies course for international learners meant rethinking assessment, from traditional exams to a more practical, student-informed approach. Here’s what worked All students ...

Authentic assessment takes many different formats, but one characteristic is that it usually has an audience beyond the marker and an imagined purpose beyond completing an assessment ‘just for the ...

Guest post by Monty Neill. Part two of a three post series. Read part one here and part three here. The U.S. stands alone among economically developed nations in its excessive use of high-stakes ...

As the scale of formal education has increased, so too has the scale of testing, to the point where it has become a giant business. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on traditional ...

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...