DEFINING AND MEASURING STUDENT LEARNING

A foundational purpose of education is to enhance student learning.However, to accomplish this goal effectively requires agreeing on how to define and measure student learning.In the United States, and many other countries, the education systems' formal assessments are infrequent large scale achievement tests.These tests function as program evaluation measures.Classroom teachers characteristically use idiosyncratic informal assessments to gauge the effectiveness of their instruction and evaluate student progress.This article shares a more precise and standard classroom-based learning measurement process that better informs decision making and thus supports equitable individualized education.