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Most college teachers recognize that collecting feedback on students' learning can help them adjust their teaching approaches to make learning more efficient and effective. Similarly, if our goal is to promote engaged learning, we are likely to be more successful if we gather feedback on how well our efforts to set up the classroom conditions that we believe create engagement actually do foster engagement, and then adjust our teaching accordingly. The core purpose of assessment from this perspective is to educate and improve student engagement, not to audit it.

Learners need to know how well they are doing and how they can do better. Effective teaching is not simply providing information—a textbook, video, or podcast can do that as well and often better. Rather, a teacher's value comes in the careful observation, analysis, and feedback to a learner that enables improvement.