New York’s Education Department responded to standardized testing during COVID with restraint, but the Biden administration chose to embrace a doomed mandate, rejecting all requests for waivers ...

The pandemic has introduced a great deal of hardship into many students’ lives, which may make it difficult for them to learn. Disruptions to students’ mental and emotional health, social systems of ...

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

What method would you prefer to use for gathering feedback, and what makes it the best choice for your needs? An online form (e.g., Google Forms or Canvas). A quick in-class poll (e.g., Poll ...

There is a lot of excitement surrounding ChatGPT, the cutting-edge chatbot powered by OpenAI. Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others ...

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 ...

The American Bar Association (ABA) is considering new accreditation standards for law schools that would require the faculty at each law school to not only assess individual student performance, but ...

Add activities and assessments to enhance your students' learning experiences in UB Learns. The following section provides guides on how to build activities and assessments in your course.

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...