As adoption of education technology accelerates, a fundamental question remains: Are we measuring the right things?

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 ...

How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning ...

In his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, the grandson of the sixth president delivered the American school system one of its most memorable intellectual smackdowns. His treatise on the ...

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform has developed a set of indicators to measure the success of expanded learning efforts that aim to improve the academic achievement of low-income students. The ...

Suppose that you’ve served on a faculty committee that has devised a list of collegewide learning objectives for your undergraduates. You don’t want that list to just sit there on a Web site as a ...

In the introductory overview, we highlighted the significant problems and false positives that accompany current Large Language Model (LLM) detection tools. The inability to identify LLM output, plus ...

Graduate-level programs were once relatively immune from pressure to define and measure “learning outcomes” for their students. But for good or ill, the student-learning-assessment movement has begun ...

I believe that effective measurement of student learning is about consistency and complexity. I am always measuring student learning in a variety of ways. I’m assessing during lessons as I listen in ...

Recent discussions on pre-K quality center around questions of what we should prioritize in early childhood classrooms — and how we should measure success. A new guide provides a chance “to explore ...

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Wellness is considered foundational to the Portrait, recognizing that academic growth is inseparable from physical, emotional, and mental well-being. The community wanted a vision of success that ...