Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big ...

These efficient feedback strategies support student learning without sacrificing a teacher's nights and weekends.

While the content and focus of feedback offered to students will depend on each individual course and assignment, several principles transcend disciplinary boundaries. When setting up feedback ...

In today’s evolving educational landscape, effective student assessment goes beyond multiple-choice tests and letter grades. According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe ...

In well-designed courses, summative assessments align to and measure specific learning outcomes of a course. Therefore, the better students perform on these indicators, the more likely they are to ...

In Ken Bain’s 2004 study of college faculty, he found that highly effective instructors believe that their students want to and are able to learn. These faculty build trusting relationships through ...

Feel free to comment on what’s going on: How have you been finding the work you’re doing in this course? (Has the workload been manageable? Do you feel engaged with the course material?) What is ...

Imagining new roles for students in learning design and education policy In April, we gathered for our annual ALP convening. The meeting space, a typical hotel conference room, was transformed by an ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

For example, Gradescope by Turnitin is a platform that uses AI technology to group similar student responses together, so the instructor can apply a consistent score or feedback to each group of ...

Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback. Our research into feedback practices has found that students and staff find feedback practices largely ...