How Global Voices Brings Language Training, Assessment, and Cultural Understanding to a Connected World

Adrianne Gomez co-founded Global Voices LLC, alongside her husband, Jonathan Gomez, in 2025, with a mission to connect ...
Drexel University

Designing Assessments for Learning

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...
Nature

Strategic questioning for formative assessment in TEFL: insights from blended synchronous learning environments

This study investigates the effects of teacher-led questioning within blended synchronous learning environments (BSLEs) on formative assessment practices in Teaching English as a Foreign Language ...
Times Higher Education

Reframe assessment as part of learning

Has generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) called time on university assessment? Many in higher education would say, no, it has forced a much-needed rethink of already outdated assessment models.
Education Week

How to Use Formative Assessment to Accelerate Learning

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.
Times Higher Education

What virtual reality and AI can do for language learners

Virtual reality and artificial intelligence can support nervous students to progress from silence to speaking confidently in foreign language classes ...
The Anderson Independent-Mail

Advanced Placement (AP)Ⓡ Encourages Avant Assessments to Expand College Credit Opportunities in More Languages

EUGENE, OR, UNITED STATES, May 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Avant, The Language Proficiency Company, announced that Advanced Placement (AP)Ⓡ recognizes Avant ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Foreign Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute

An ad hoc committee will evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency and that the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI) could potentially use to ...
Nature

Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis

The question of why native and foreign languages are learned with a large performance gap has prompted language researchers to hypothesize that they are subserved by fundamentally different mechanisms ...
Inside Higher Ed

Q&A: Toward Better Assessments in Online Courses

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...
The Conversation

Universities should learn from assessment methods used during the pandemic – and cut down on exams for good

Timed written examinations continue to dominate university assessment. In most professions, the need to recall and write down specific information from memory under timed conditions is rare. Yet every ...