Each day, as students enter my biology classroom, someone will inevitably ask the question, “What are we doing today?” My response always attempts to shift their frame of thought from the ...

For the past three months, The Chronicle‘s reporters have been writing a series of articles collectively titled Measuring Stick, describing the consequences of a higher-education system that refuses ...

It's not a new question, but it's certainly a divisive one -- how to best measure student learning. As the Department of Education works toward finding a way to assess student learning beyond what ...

In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the research addressed in the Deeper Learning Report released by the National Research ...

Two initiatives -- FLEXspace and the Learning Space Rating System -- are developing ways to review and share designs for active learning spaces. In the late 1980s, Stanford University's (CA) writing ...

Our students are coming of age in a world that demands global competency. From economic interdependence to the accelerating effects of climate change and mass migration, students need to develop the ...

As technology accelerates the evolution of online learning, rankings can support universities in their digital transformations, setting standards that make for more rewarding student experiences When ...

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is launching the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML), which will support efforts by countries around the world to measure learning outcomes and to use ...

In my initial post I posed the question, why measure student learning? The answer to this question inevitably varies depending upon who you ask. Even more complicated than addressing the purpose ...