Protect independent journalism before the deadline hits tonight. One modern educational innovation is a method called “formative assessment,” but an array of definitions and applications complicate ...

The governing board for the tests known as “the nation’s report card” has marked its own definition of what makes a student academically prepared for college. At a meeting here this month, members of ...

The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...

What does it mean to be college-ready? That’s a question that’s driving one of the biggest projects in education right now: the development of assessments for the Common Core State Standards. And as ...

Whichever assessment practice model you use—be it Response to Intervention (RTI), multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), or any other—building a positive culture of assessment is the key to success ...

Newly developed consensus definitions for complete and accurate Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST) and extended FAST (E-FAST) evaluations may better guide clinical decision-making ...