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 ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect job description for Paul Leather. He oversees state and local partnerships for the Center for Innovation and Education. Let’s get ...

All instruction is culturally responsive. The question is: To which culture is it currently oriented?" —Gloria Ladson-Billings One powerful means of bringing students’ culture into the classroom is ...

If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a ...

Launched in 2015, PACE is an accountability pilot approved by the U.S. Department of Education and designed by New Hampshire to drive deeper learning for students and organizational change for schools ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Engaging students with course materials is a challenging aspect of teaching in higher education. This problem is particularly prevalent in graduate-level classes, where students from different ...