Learning & Assessment

Is the fight against cheating during remote instruction worth enlisting third-party student surveillance platforms?

How lenient, or not, should professors be with students right now?

Some colleges are changing how they collect and consider student ratings of instructors, citing the COVID-19-driven move online. Might that undermine a widely criticized (and used) tool?

We should use this moment to recapture some of the initial spirit of the option, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

Rethinking how we assess, test and grade our students gives not only them but also instructors needed flexibility during an impossible time, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis write.

The federal government opened the door for regional accreditors to operate in other parts of the country, and one agency is taking advantage, Judith Eaton writes. Is this a good idea or a bad one?

Freed by new U.S. rules, the accrediting agency for California, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands will review colleges outside its region -- the first regional accreditor to make such a move.

While faculty members believe that their practices are fair and objective, a closer look reveals that they are anything but, argues Joe Feldman.