What about the advantages and disadvantages of group assignments, in which everyone is graded according to the final result, not his or her individual contribution? Time and again, my daughter has ...

Some parents of Fond du Lac High School students have expressed concern and confusion over the new standards-based grading and a group-learning system used in some high school math classes — both ...

Assessing students’ group work in ways that are consistent and fair can be challenging. This resource offers ideas on how to best use, design, facilitate, manage and assess group work. The terms ...

Educators at the San Leandro Unified school district in Northern California had a grading and assessment dilemma. In 2013, some students getting D and F letter grades were meeting content standards on ...

I’m hard pressed to think of someone else in higher ed who is more influential in starting conversations about teaching and learning than James Lang (Cheating Lessons and Small Teaching), and writing ...