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 ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

Student learning outcomes (SLOs) allow us to determine whether students are reaching the goals and objectives that we want them to achieve. They are expressed as specific statements describing the ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

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, ...

Science is usually one of the more hands-on subjects in middle school: Students design research questions, draw diagrams, and conduct experiments. But the country’s 8th graders are less likely to do ...

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

Teacher educator, independent researcher, and author Zaretta Hammond has a new book out, Rebuilding Students′ Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice, which builds on ...

Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for ...

Students develop a sense of ownership over learning and find new ways to be successful when they can choose how they show what they know.