Measuring student learning - A lever for change in a rapidly changing educational landscape

Recent years have begun to see significant changes to the physics classroom. From the increased ubiquity of active learning techniques to new tools for measuring student learning to advances in technology that offer both new opportunities and new challenges for physics educators. As we both adapt to and weather these changes, it is important to ground our decision making in robust data on student learning. In this talk, I will present some of the tools available to measure student learning as well as some of the barriers and challenges of scalable assessments in the age of AI. These tools not only provide a mechanism for individual instructors to test new strategies in their course and measure their impact, but can also be centralized to facilitate large scale comparisons of different curricula and pedagogical approaches.