For students who have fallen years behind in math and reading, recovering that lost academic ground is a marathon, not a sprint. But it doesn’t hurt to pick up the pace. A new study of more than 5 ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

Regie Routman is an educator who collaborates with principals, teachers, and students in underperforming schools to increase and sustain reading and writing achievement. She is the author of many ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. There’s a bomb ticking! Jon Spike, coordinator of ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

As the fall term begins to wind down, many of us are already thinking about ways to adjust our courses to the nine week winter quarter. This modification can seem daunting to those of us who may ...

Assessment Council: charged with oversight and integration of assessment activities across campus, including balancing the requirements of professional accreditation with undergraduate ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

Learning a new language brings a whole range of interesting benefits, but how can they be applied to academic goals? The truth is there are plenty of ways that picking up a second language can help a ...

The most important phrase in higher education in the past decade has been "assessment of student learning outcomes." Researchers at two institutions, however, maintain that top U.S. colleges and ...

The advice to focus on student comments is aligned with the 2019 findings of a faculty senate task force charged with evaluating the state of S-RATEs, RIT's system of student evaluation of instruction ...