Richard J. Stiggins, an advocate of classroom assessments in the service of learning, identifies misconceptions about formative assessment.

Give them the opportunity to improve their initial scores by turning in their reflections for credit. I challenge you to make these 21st-century skills and assessments a focus in your classroom.

Changing how you give and use formative assessments can help you make better instructional decisions for all students.

Many of my conversations with faculty focus on the challenges they have with doing good learning assessment in large classes. The best learner-centered assessment approaches are no match for ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

For my class, style and structure must be demonstrated in the description of an authentic task—a project. Authentic tasks require a process, and that process must be part of the assessment.