Assessment Learning Network Resources

This paper describes several ways that interim benchmark assessments can be categorized.

This is a short video from Common Sense Education about the 4 Cs for 21st-century skills.

Jay McTighe’s website generously offers many free tools and templates to guide development of performance assessment.  Under "Resources", he also provides dozens of links to other websites that house performance tasks or provide guidance for development.

This template developed by Mary McFarland, Harvard Project Zero, pairs categories of questions to elicit evidence and provide feedback to learners.

This article describes how school leaders can become more effective by learning about formative assessment.

a free Asynchronous Professional Learning Map was prepared by the Michigan Assessment Consortium and offered in partnership with MAISA’s General Education Leadership Network (GELN) Continuity of Learning Task Force. It is one of a library of Learning Maps available on GELN’s interactive website to support local professional learning plans and provide high-quality resources to all teachers across Michigan in 2020-21. It includes hyperlinks to all suggested resources, coordinated to support the learning of groups or individuals from engagement through extending the learning.

Interim benchmark assessments are described in this Learning Point.

This article describes how learning progressions support the effective use of formative assessment practices.

This Learning Resource is a companion chart to the Learning Point, "Interim Assessment: What are some key characteristics?"

The video conference and supporting document emphasize the practices necessary to: provide more descriptive feedback during learning, and turn students into assessors and confident learners.