Rethinking Student Assessment for Modern Learning

 

Decades of research in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and educational psychology have illuminated how humans learn, think, and make meaning. Join ISM’s Dr. Maggie Renken as she reconsiders assessment through the lens of the learning sciences — examining how attention, memory, metacognition, and transfer actually work, and how these processes are being reshaped by constant access to digital and AI tools. Participants will explore how to design student assessments that reflect authentic learning by emphasizing reasoning, creativity, collaboration, and conceptual understanding over recall or reproduction.