Fifth grader Tacyana Thomas had put the finishing touches on a short paragraph. Now, she held her paper next to a model essay and compared her writing with her teacher’s. Had she used evidence to back ...

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 ...

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.

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

The Algoma District School Board (ADSB), located in Ontario, Canada, serves a diverse group of 9,400 students across 39 elementary and 10 secondary schools. Through our strategic priorities of ...

Are we the best judge of our abilities? Some behavioral scientists will tell us no. In their argument, they will cite the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is the inability to properly assess one's skills ...

While the content and focus of feedback offered to students will depend on each individual course and assignment, several principles transcend disciplinary boundaries. When setting up feedback ...

The fall semester is under way, your courses are exciting, and you are busily “professing” about biochemistry, microeconomics, or Middlemarch to students encountering you for the first time. Surely ...

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 ...