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What is assessment? Where do we want students to be at the end of a course or a program? And how will we know if they get there? Those two questions are at the heart of assessment.

in the modern business environment, the desire to learn new things is often trumped by the need to respond to the next item on the to-do list. There are no shortcuts to having high-quality knowledge, but effort spent learning new things effectively repays itself handsomely in the long run.

Multitasking is the bane of modern existence. You cannot maximize the quality of your knowledge if you are doing two things at once.

Stop and organize.

education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.

The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs

Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.

Tools with adaptive content are all about two things: looking at a student's specific answer and then responding with unique hints, feedback and resources on a specific topic.

Adaptive assessments change and respond based on whether students answer questions correctly or incorrectly.

Tools with adaptive sequences are the most complex of the three. They often make use of “algorithms” and “predictive analytics” that can continuously collect data and use it to change what a student sees.