Each type of assessment—whether standardized tests, formative assessments, summative assessments, or performance-based assessments—comes with its own set of social assumptions about how students should learn and be evaluated, and these assumptions c...More

Testing intelligence focuses on assessing a person’s ability to reason, solve problems, and adapt to new situations, often through abstract tasks that don’t require specific prior knowledge. It evaluates cognitive abilities like pattern recognition...More

Why Evaluation Matters: Asking "Are We Making a Difference?"

Evaluating what we do in education is crucial because it helps us understand whether our programs and teaching methods truly benefit students and improve learning. Through evaluation, edu...More

The Power of Data in Digital Classrooms

Embedded learning analytics can really change how we understand student progress. In a digital classroom, every action a student takes, like how long they spend on a task, what comments they make in discussio...More

Understanding Social Assumptions and Consequences in Assessments

Different assessments are built on different ideas about what learning should look like and how students compare to each other. Norm-referenced tests, for instance, assume that abilit...More

The Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) is a nonverbal test used to measure abstract reasoning and overal intelligence. Developed by John C. Raven in the 1960s, the APM was designed as an improved version of earlier Raven's Progressive Matrices, des...More