How might collaboration create a state of assessment literacy?
This Learning Point describes how the Assessment Learning Network can promote collaboration on assessment learning.
How might we achieve balance through a comprehensive system of science assessment? MAC 2018
This ThinkPoint describes how balanced between assessment for and of assessment can be achieved.
How might we measure what matters most? It’s time for an assessment overhaul
The abrupt and unprecedented disruptions to education brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in considerable changes to business as usual in K-12 schools and universities. This ThinkPoint by noted author and speaker Jay McTighe proposes a fundamental question concerning the alignment between our high-stakes assessments and the goals of a modern education, and proposes a 3-part system that would provide a more comprehensive assessment of learning out¬comes that matter, while averting many of the acknowledged problems of current accountability testing.
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School: Expanded Edition (2000)
Book: How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School: Expanded Edition (2000) The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine offers a free PDF download of this book. This book is based on cognitive science research. It adds to our understanding of what it means to know. The book examines these finds and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. "
How performance assessments strengthen the formative assessment process and help promote student-centered instruction
This Learning Point considers the mutually strengthening relationship between student-centered classrooms, the formative assessment process, and performance assessments.
How Teachers Engage with Assessment for Learning: Lessons from the Classroom
Marshall and Drummond provide some history, about the origins of the concept of assessment for learning and the emergence of the term formative assessment
How to Design a 21st Century Assessment
Contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets.
How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards
This source is a suggested resource to supplement the November 22nd, 2019 ALN event.
Individual Leadership Action Tool
Self-assessment survey for team, building, or central office leader about assessment knowledge and practice.
Inside the Black Box – Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment by Paul Black and Dylan William
This is the seminal article that started the focus on formative assessment, demonstrating the power and promise of the use of such practices.
Instructionally Embedded Modes of Assessment
This tool defines an IEA - which integrates instruction, learning and assessment into instructional sequences. Steps to implement IEA's in classroom use are recommended. A table of IEA's with hyperlinks to examples is provided for quick access and further learning
Interim Assessment: What are some key characteristics?
Learn about some key characteristics you should know when selecting interim assessments. Also see "Learning Resource: Purposes for and Essential Characteristics of Interim Assessment".