Direct assessment, or gathering evidence demonstrating exactly what students did, or did not, learn, provides the most helpful information about student learning. While indirect assessment can ...

Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees. But some college leaders are confused about whether the U.S. Department of Education remains supportive of a new form of ...

Direct Assessment refers to any method of collecting data that requires students to demonstrate a knowledge, skill, or behavior, normally as part of the regular educational experience of students in ...

A little over a year ago, I left my post as vice president for education attainment and innovation at the American Council on Education to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and ...

Through a collaboration between faculty, instructional designers and assessment staff, a template has been created in BbLearn to help connect the course to the overall program and to make integrating ...

Western Michigan University touts itself as a student-centered research university. As such, students are the main focus of our mission. We must be continually concerned with what our students learn ...