Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

Multiple-choice exams measuring the breadth of students’ content knowledge have hardly disappeared. But the creators of a leading international exam, the U.S. government agency behind “the nation’s ...

Planning and problem solving constitute central facets of executive functioning and are critical in a broad range of neuropsychological evaluations. Cognitive assessment methods, including classical ...

Journal of Educational Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: Collaborative Educational Assessments (Spring 2017), pp. 12-35 (24 pages) Collaborative problem solving is a complex skill set that ...

After receiving a $1 million Google grant last year, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) set out to solve a problem: Find a way to assess soft skills in a credible and tangible way. Soft skills, ...

Problem-solving skills in the context of technologically complex modern societies have become increasingly important to health management in later life. Using data from the 2012/2014 Program for the ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

Two Rivers Public Charter School welcomed its first class of students in the fall of 2004, after more than three dozen parents from the Capitol Hill neighborhood came together to write the charter.

Compared with their peers in developed nations, American 15-year olds are slightly above average problem solvers, but not as good as students from Asian nations who regularly shellac them in math, ...

Problem-solving is a key transferable skill, developing the use of strategic planning, logic, curiosity, an exploratory mindset and creativity across many disciplines. Problem-solving tasks can take ...