Learning & Assessment

The Education Department plans to change widely disparaged federal definition of completion rate to include transfers and nontraditional students.

Massachusetts is believed to be the first state system to mandate civic engagement measurement.

Standardized tests are placing community college students who are ready for college into remedial classes, two studies find, making them less likely to earn degrees.

In first effort of its kind in the U.S., a discipline works to define what graduates of its programs should be able to do -- from associate degree through the Ph.D.

Report says black, Native American and Hispanic students aren't taking AP classes they could succeed in, but are failing the exams they do take at a higher rate.

An ambitious research project is proving the payoffs of predictive analytics in higher ed, and early findings overturn conventional wisdom about student success.

It starts with "ass" -- but get your head out of the gutter; it's not what you think. Still, some deans suggest avoiding the word around professors.