SAN MATEO, Calif. and LEHI, Utah — IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people worldwide, announced it has acquired Emmersion, the Utah-based leader in ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

Assessments in K-12 schools have traditionally been designed with a monolingual English-speaking student in mind. But the English learner population, speaking a variety of home languages, continues to ...

AI is transforming how we assess language learning, moving beyond simple accuracy scores to more holistic, pedagogically grounded evaluations. New benchmarks and frameworks aim to measure real-world ...

There is a storm brewing for modern language education in the UK. The uptake in higher education has more than halved in the past 15 years. And in the same period, ten modern language university ...

Language Assessment Literacy (hereinafter abbreviated as LAL) is closely related to second language teaching and learning practices. It is crucial to examine its relationship with teaching, feedback, ...

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...

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