I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

There’s a war of sorts going on within the normally staid assessment industry, and it’s a war over the definition of a type of assessment that many educators understand in only the sketchiest fashion.

1 The National Research Center for Giftedness and Creativity, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia 2 Faculty of Educational Sciences, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan This study aimed to ...

Students often report feeling anxious about assessments, and struggling to understand marking criteria, how to use their feedback, and how to do well. Improving assessment and feedback literacy ...

Introduction: Medical students’ autonomous learning is a cornerstone of their educational journey. Formative assessment is defined as a process to enhance learning and improve academic performance, ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...

The second phase of Functional Course Design, which includes steps three through five of the framework, is focused on supporting instructors in deconstructing the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and/or ...