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 ...

It's not a new question, but it's certainly a divisive one -- how to best measure student learning. As the Department of Education works toward finding a way to assess student learning beyond what ...

Colleges have increased the number of ways they assess their students’ learning, but their use of the data to inform changes in curriculum has not kept pace, according to a report released on Tuesday.

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 ...

Colleges, meanwhile, continue to search for that elusive value-added measure, which, however flawed, can lead to better teaching. "We should not be afraid of a culture of self-scrutiny on campus, but ...

In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the research addressed in the Deeper Learning Report released by the National Research ...

Two initiatives -- FLEXspace and the Learning Space Rating System -- are developing ways to review and share designs for active learning spaces. In the late 1980s, Stanford University's (CA) writing ...

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There is something simple (not easy) that most providers and buyers of Smart learning services fail to maximise the value of. They miss the opportunity to benefit from using baseline measurements to ...

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