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 ...

Follow the recommended actions, gain insights from the tips and learn from the examples in each of the five steps outlined below to design an authentic assessment for your context. Determine if ...

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 ...

Using anonymous student data for assessment tasks enhances engagement with learning, fosters practical skill development and makes business and economics concepts more memorable I have been ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

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 ...

It’s been more than a month since the coronavirus crisis drove higher education online, along with much of the rest of the U.S. workforce. As April turns into May, the focus in many college and ...

The rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies, such as ChatGPT and Claude, is prompting urgent reflections across the education sector. While much of the ...

In an excellent column, Ray Schroeder, senior fellow for the Association of Leaders in Online and Professional Education, laments the tendency for many instructors to rely on text-specific test banks ...