Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

Dental education has increasingly embraced self-assessment as a critical component in cultivating reflective, competent practitioners. Modern curricula are designed to encourage students to evaluate ...

We all want our students to be able to make good, responsible choices. The use of a student-completed SEL assessment (i.e., student self-report) provides a defined, attainable, and effective means of ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Male dental students overestimate their performance more significantly than females, and both genders self-assess their skills more positively compared to scores given by ...

Assessing group work involves evaluating a group's achievement of learning outcomes through collaborative assignments or projects (product), that group's ability to work together (process), and/or the ...

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 ...

The best way to make any important changes in life is to take a moment to assess what is going well and what needs some adjustment. This inventory will help you take stock of your life as a CWRU ...