Learning & Assessment

How do professors respond to regrade requests? One department encourages instructors to pass them up the chain.

College credentialing and degree inflation tend to serve the needs of employers, not students, write Frederick M. Hess and Grant Addison.

Gainful employment remains on the books, but Trump administration says it can't enforce the career-education rule because another federal agency won't release data on graduates' earnings.

Computer science students at the University of California, Berkeley, are frustrated with a malfunctioning autograding system.

An investigation into a Texas community college found that administrators improperly changed nursing students' grades from failing to passing.

New study says the evolving economy creates a greater need for their skills, but that many colleges could do better at thinking about what graduates can do and helping them translate that into jobs.

Researchers hoped that online communications would prod students to nearly double their study time. It barely budged, but their study shows how scholars can measure impact (or lack thereof) of educational interventions.

Going beyond placement exams allows more community college students to take and pass gateway math and English courses, but some worry about students who need remediation.