The syllabus for Workers' Education Association courses was revised to include explicit learning objectives while attempting to overcome adult student resistance to formal assessment. The form enables students to comment on the course and evaluate their own outcomes. (SK)

Writing teachers and educators can add to information from large-scale testing and teachers can strengthen classroom assessment by creating a tight fit between large-scale testing and classroom assessment. Across the years, large-scale testing programs have struggled with a difficult problem: how to evaluate student writing reliably and…