When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

As the early childhood sector enters a year of significant reform and renewed professional expectations, setting clear, achievable goals has never been more important. Intentional goal setting not ...

Integrating course design and assessment planning ensures cohesive teaching practices and enhances student learning outcomes. An integrated approach considers the interconnectedness of situational ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

One week before Labor Day 30 years ago, I met my first public school class: 30 6th graders standing on the playground of their brand-new school, ranging in height from short and cute to intimidatingly ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can we use goal-setting with our students? In Part ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In the early days of the new year we tend to fixate on goals. Maybe this is the year we get ...