The U.S. Department of Education today released its first guide to the evaluation of online-learning programs in K-12 education. The report is designed to help school leaders gauge the effectiveness ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

Consider the purpose of the assessment and whether you want to engage in Program Evaluation, Quality Improvement or Research (this distinction is particularly important because if the evaluation is ...

William R. Penuel is a professor of learning sciences and human development in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. His current research examines conditions needed to ...

This article presents the structure and theoretical foundations of the Learning Object Review Instrument (LORI), an evaluation aid available through the E-Learning Research and Assessment Network at ...

Summative assessments evaluate learning at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period. While typically used to gauge final outcomes, these assessments can also serve formative purposes, ...

Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is widely used to measure the quality of teaching, and often controversially, for teacher recruitment, promotion and tenure. Institution-led SET is largely ...