Anyone involved in the assessment and evaluation of talent will at some point have to address the specter of “Moneyball.” Moneyball was Michael Lewis’s story (book then movie) about Billy Beane’s ...

Theodore K. Rabb writes that in an ideal world, evaluation would be unnecessary. After all, he says, Socrates never gave grades. But assessment is here to stay, the professor emeritus of history at ...

Assessment is a valuable complement to instruction. It tells us who has learned and who hasn’t so educators can determine what’s most likely to help a student grow and succeed in the future. With ...