One modern educational innovation is a method called “formative assessment,” but an array of definitions and applications complicate the ability of experts to measure the effectiveness of this new ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...

Older people often have multiple and complex care needs, so assessing them is a highly skilled activity. Their health issues and care needs are sometimes summed up in ‘catchy’ phrases, but it is ...

What does it mean to be college-ready? That’s a question that’s driving one of the biggest projects in education right now: the development of assessments for the Common Core State Standards. And as ...

Newly developed consensus definitions for complete and accurate Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST) and extended FAST (E-FAST) evaluations may better guide clinical decision-making ...

Definition and purpose The term assessment is commonly used in healthcare and has a number of definitions. One way to define it is as an evaluation during which “information is collected to identify ...