Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has broken higher education assessment. This has implications from the classroom to institutional accreditation. We are advocating for a one-year pause on ...

At UMass Lowell, the goal of assessment is to understand and improve student learning, and to engage the campus in an ongoing conversation about curricula and outcomes. We work with campus partners to ...

Utilizing the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment Transparency Framework, this website provides an overview of UW assessment activities and results. Welcome to the 2023/2024 Academic ...

Program-level assessment: Systematic collection of data about how well students are learning in their progression through a particular program, such as an academic degree or certificate program, ...

Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about educational programs to improve student learning and development. All academic programs at RIT engage in program ...

Home Initiatives Assessment of Student Learning Assessment of Student Learning In alignment with Northwestern’s commitment to excellent teaching and the personal and intellectual growth of our ...

Assessing the Active Learning Initiative at Case Western Reserve University What impact does the implementation of active learning strategies and flexible, collaborative learning spaces have on ...

Brief Overview The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and ...

Academic program assessment facilitates continuous program level quality improvement by providing information that can be used to make programmatic changes. With our outcome based approach, programs ...

Formative Learning Assessment: Individual students are measuring themselves against their learning goals, prior work, other students’ work, and/or an objective standard or rubric.

Both kinds of assessment are important, but one has been ignored in our attempts to improve schools. Now we need a national, state, and local investment in assessment for learning.