At a time when the Internet empowers students with instant knowledge access, teachers need to renew their approaches consistently to remain relevant. How do they do that? The answer lies in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding how we learn best is one of the keys to growth as human beings. This essential metacognitive skill is not innate and must be modeled and taught in school starting as early as possible.

Various studies have expressed concern over low learning levels among students of government schools. But results of a teachers’ self-assessment exercise show that about 68 per cent of them have “met ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

Teachers in Germany predominantly rate their ability to use digital technologies in the classroom positively. These are the results of a survey commissioned by the digital association Bitkom. A total ...

In higher education circles, there is something of a feeding frenzy surrounding the issue of assessment. The federal government, due to release a proposed rating system later this fall, wants ...