Assessment methods in medical education have evolved substantially over recent decades, incorporating a variety of tools designed to evaluate both basic recall and higher order cognitive skills.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education is changing in response to new technologies and shifting social expectations. As digital systems become part of ...

University physics and astronomy programmes are in a period of rapid transition. Shifts in student demographics, technological acceleration, and growing ...

Before determining your assessment methods, you should identify the type and level of student learning you want to evaluate. Class size and discipline area, whether students will complete assessments ...

Contemporary assessment methods in the United States and other parts of the world reflect the progressive development of the education sectors’ legal and organizational environments. The systems have ...

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

Indirect Measures of student learning ask students to reflect on or self-assess their learning rather than demonstrate it. This can include measures of students’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and ...

A rubric is an assessment tool that takes the form of a matrix, which describes levels of achievement in a specific area of performance, understanding, or behavior for a learning outcome. Faculty ...

The Committee on the Foundations of Assessment produced this report, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to review and synthesize advances in the cognitive and measurement ...

Peer review of academic programs is a widely accepted method for assessing curricular sequences as well as course development and delivery. Using external reviewers is a useful way of analyzing ...