What goals do you value the most as a student? Getting outstanding scores, ranking among the best, or exploring knowledge and mastering skills? If grades and rankings are your top priorities, do you ...

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the U.S. in 2020, college leaders and policymakers have raised questions about the academic preparation of today’s students. College readiness metrics in math and ...

When students use artificial intelligence to learn new subjects, their underlying motivations dictate whether they actually retain information or just acquire superficial facts. A recent experiment ...

It goes without saying that improving student learning and helping students achieve their learning goals have always been priorities for classroom teachers and educators. Today, pandemic-related ...

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 ...

Essential Education was developed around four undergraduate student learning goals and 12 performance criteria. These performance criteria are the Essential Abilities. By design, these abilities are ...

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...

The achievement goal framework examines how students’ objectives shape motivation, engagement and performance in educational contexts. Goals represent the underlying reasons why learners approach or ...

“Our data shows that academic achievement for our high-needs students and chronic absenteeism are still two areas of student improvement.” Focusing on her student learning goal for academic ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...