A restricted-response assessment performance task is a teaching tool. Corporations and some smaller companies use this specifically for training new employees or updating skills. Assessment tools for ...

We hear from Missouri that they are cutting out the writing and performance tasks students have been required to do as part of the state’s standardized-test system. Shock of the century: It’s all ...

Project-based learning is nothing new. More than 100 years ago, progressive educator William Heard Kilpatrick published “The Project Method,” a monograph that took the first stab at defining ...

According to the theory of goal setting and task performance, people are more likely to achieve difficult yet attainable goals than they are to achieve less difficult goals. In addition, the theory ...

We know that sleep is important for learning and memory, and that recent memory traces may be ‘replayed’ in the brain during sleep. Dreaming as well incorporates recent experiences, especially from ...

Is your day a nonstop cycle of email, instant messaging and other text-based communication? New research from FIU Business shows that if you’re looking to stay sharp throughout the day, you might want ...

The relation between the achievement motive and the level of performance was examined separately on three intelligence levels. The population examined was of youngsters aged 19-20, who took tests ...