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Formative Assessment Evidence Gathering Tools

List of 48 tools/tactics  that can be utilized to gather evidence of student thinking, a key part of the formative assessment process.

Formative Assessment in the Disciplines: Framing a Continuum of Professional Learning, by Margaret Heritage and E. Caroline Wylie

Formative Assessment Planning Template

This guide is used by the FAME program to assist teachers with planning.

Formative Assessment Self-Reflection Coding Booklet

The purpose of this coding booklet is to permit teachers to examine their instruction, reflect on areas for improvement and observe changes over time. The booklet contains rubrics and are coordinated to FAME components and elements.

Formative Feedback Navigating the complexity of engaging student thinking

Providing and managing formative feedback in anonline learning environment is considered in the webinar featured on this event page.

Foundations of Meaningful Educational Measurement

This textbook keeps technical measurement terms in check for practitioners, helping to deepen their understanding. (2009) McGraw Hill

Four assessment capabilities: What they are and why our children would want their teachers to have them

Graduating teachers often feel under-prepared for the current contexts of assessment they will face as beginning teachers. Even experienced teachers can feel uncertain when it comes to assessing student learning. In this ThinkPoint document, research colleagues Jill Willis, Bronwen Cowie, Christine Harris, and Chris DeLuca describe four assessment capabilities identified during their four-year study across four countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom— from the perspective of pre-service teachers.

FREE School Resources for Navigating Emotional Times (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)

The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence offers this collection of articles, resources, and free webinars to help all leaders, educators, students, and families in their effort to build and sustain positive emotional climates.

Free SEL Course for School Personnel (YCEI)

This course, "Social and Emotional Learning in Times of Uncertainty and Stress: Research-Based Strategies," is delivered by leading experts in the fields of psychology, education, and research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. There is no course fee due to a generous grant from Dalio Education.

Fundamental Assessment Principles for Teachers and School Administrators

This article presents basic assessment learning principles for teachers and administrators.

Getting to the heart of authentic Assessment for Learning

This article describes the essential features of assessment for learning from an international perspective. It also contrasts assessment for learning and formative assessment.

Grading for learning: Guidelines for supporting student success

This Learning Point outlines 8 guidelines recommended by Ken O'Connor necessary to shift from traditional grading practices to those that align with standards and support learning.