For the past three months, The Chronicle‘s reporters have been writing a series of articles collectively titled Measuring Stick, describing the consequences of a higher-education system that refuses ...

Each day, as students enter my biology classroom, someone will inevitably ask the question, “What are we doing today?” My response always attempts to shift their frame of thought from the ...

As technology accelerates the evolution of online learning, rankings can support universities in their digital transformations, setting standards that make for more rewarding student experiences When ...

We know the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning. Thus, the question: How do we assess what our students have learned in distance and ...

The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

It's not a new question, but it's certainly a divisive one -- how to best measure student learning. As the Department of Education works toward finding a way to assess student learning beyond what ...

There is something simple (not easy) that most providers and buyers of Smart learning services fail to maximise the value of. They miss the opportunity to benefit from using baseline measurements to ...

In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the research addressed in the Deeper Learning Report released by the National Research ...

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is launching the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML), which will support efforts by countries around the world to measure learning outcomes and to use ...