Contemporary assessment methods in the United States and other parts of the world reflect the progressive development of the education sectors’ legal and organizational environments. The systems have ...

Summative assessments evaluate learning at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period. While typically used to gauge final outcomes, these assessments can also serve formative purposes, ...

Educational assessment seeks to determine how well students are learning and is an integral part of the quest for improved education. It provides feedback to students, educators, parents, policy ...

Future of Testing in Education: Effective and Equitable Assessment Systems This analysis of testing in schools shows what the current debate gets wrong, and how educators and policymakers can create a ...

This chapter summarizes two presentations and a discussion of the assessment of 21st century skills. The first section of the chapter focuses on methods used by some large corporations to assess the ...

When we design assessment with transparency, cultural awareness and inclusivity in mind, it becomes a tool for supporting learning rather than measuring it, writes Patrice Seuwou and explains how Many ...