Pinterest boasts more than 1,000 ideas about how students can self-evaluate their own learning. My Google search on the same topic offered six million results. Clearly, the resources are plentiful.

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

WASHINGTON -- The case for student evaluations of teaching is obvious: students are (hopefully) at each class session, with a front-row seat to the good, the bad and the ugly of instruction. They may ...

The end of every Duke semester follows a familiar pattern: exams, papers and a flood of emails urging students to complete course evaluations. Course evaluations aim to “help instructors identify ...

Parents enroll their children in language immersion programs in order to give them the gift of knowing another language. They also expect that their children will do as well or better in learning the ...

Stanley Fish bemoans the use of student evaluations -- which can seem capricious at best and misleading at worst -- as a means of evaluating teaching performance (“Who’s in Charge Here?,” Careers, ...

Although autumn seems a bit delayed in parts of the US, the semester calendar is still marching on. The Midterms are here (no, not those midterm elections, rather, the midterms that happen on campus).

When Linda Arnold came to Virginia Tech in 1982, she was told of a professor in the history department who turned in his student evaluations, as expected, at the end of the semester. Weeks later, he ...

Editor’s Note: This Commentary is part of a special report exploring game-changing trends and innovations that have the potential to shake up the schoolhouse. Read the full report: 10 Big Ideas in ...