The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

All educational fixes face the same problem—how do you measure success? The simplest method is to attempt to measure the quantity of learning, saying that students achieve more learning or less ...

In an attempt to head off a government-ordered system to measure student learning, the two higher-education associations representing the nation’s public colleges are calling on their members to ...

There is a popular quote attributed to management expert Peter Drucker: “What gets measured gets improved.” In education, the mantra is equally true. However, since I began working in edtech five ...

For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue. Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt ...

Supporters of the “growth model” approach—measuring individual student growth over time—argue that it is a positive alternative to the single end-of-the-year tests often used to satisfy the ...

UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have joined forces to close the learning data gaps that still exist and that preclude many countries to monitor of the quality of their education systems and assess ...

We know the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning. Thus, the question: How do we assess what our students have learned in distance and ...

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As Americans express growing doubts about the value of a postsecondary degree, colleges and universities have been under increasing pressure to show that students emerge with the knowledge and/or ...

>> SO, LEARNING LOSS, FOR MANY OF US, HAS BEEN A TITLE OR A SUBJECT MATTER THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED SINCE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN IN OFFICE. ACTUALLY, IT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I LAUNCHED MY CAMPAIGN TO ...

Students and teachers at Manteca High and East Union High made it clear what they wanted the makeover of Manteca Unified’s ...