Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

We’ve begun a new school year with continued challenges for students, teachers, parents, and other learning guardians. Having spent the spring semester navigating the new world of widespread distance ...

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 ...

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. and LEHI, Utah — IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people worldwide, announced it has acquired Emmersion, the Utah-based leader in ...

Technology and artificial intelligence can vastly improve the types of assessments teachers use to guide students in their learning. Despite the often-negative discussion about testing in schools, ...

On paper, the Compton Unified School District has soared in its academic performance in the last decade. District Superintendent Darin Brawley has, in part, attributed the upswing to regular ...

Alex Mangold received funding from the British Academy for the research mentioned in this article (Talent Development Award 2021). Sarah Pogoda received funding from the British Academy for the ...

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What does learning and mentorship have to do with recruitment? Apart from perks that attract talent, these two things can be a part of the interview process. One learning expert, John Kleeman, ...