EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series looking at the ongoing discussion of accountability measures for students and their school districts. How best to determine if students are ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Eric Gilbert’s recent opinion essay, “Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time” (The Chronicle, March 20), grossly misrepresents the assessment of learning. Gilbert states that “the fundamental claim ...

A few years ago, when I was on my university’s Graduate Council, a new course proposal came to us from our College of Education. The proposal referred to the different learning styles of students, ...

Chief Product Officer at Vue.ai, a company that builds AI products for Retail in the areas of Process Automation and Personalization. Since each person has a unique way of grasping, processing and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The notion of "learning styles"-- that ...

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

In her recent article “The Bunk of Debunking Learning Styles,” Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes a plea for common sense in the face of research findings that contradict her direct observations of learning ...

Many researchers have suggested that differences in students’ learning styles may be as important as ability, but empirical evidence is thin Ken Gibson was an advanced reader in elementary school and ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the type of learner who needs to see information laid out visually to understand how it fits together. It’s how I best retain information. I guess I’m just one ...