Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

There is another way in which assessments can contribute to the development of effective schools, one that has been largely ignored. The evolution of assessment in this country over the past five ...

Individuals take in and process information in a variety of ways, according to Terrence Maltbia, associate professor of organization and leadership at Columbia University. When it comes to employee ...

Whenever I speak to audiences about the science of learning, as I’ve been doing a lot this fall, one topic always comes up in the Q&A; sessions that follow my talk: learning styles. Learning ...

Teaching to different learning styles, such as visual or auditory, has become widely popular in education. As educators struggle to define effective 21st-century instruction, one practice that many ...

For way too long, students were defined and confined by learning styles. It most likely all began as a positive move toward helping students grow as learners, but it was one of those times educators ...

Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular. It’s also been thoroughly ...