Assessment Learning Network Resources

This paper describes two methods for educator evaluation.

This article describes what principals need to know about assessment and how they can support the teachers in their buildings.

The recorded presentation with Ed Roeber, Assessment Director, MAC, and accompanying article Re-balancing Assessment by Hoffman, Goodwin and Kahl set the stage to create a set of prioritized standards and develop performance assessments to embed in ongoing instruction and highlight the benefits of collaboratively scoring student work

Two missions are undertaken in this ThinkPoint essay by James Popham. He says, “Mission One is to convince readers that the single most cost-effective way to improve our schools is to increase the assessment literacy of concerned clienteles. Mission Two is to invite American publishers, chiefly those who publish books or journals dealing with educational testing, to participate actively in promoting a nationwide expansion of assessment literacy.”

FAME Website:  Formative Assessment for MI Educators (FAME) is a professional learning initiative sponsored by the Michigan Department of Education.  This site supports the program and contains many high-quality resources and links.

This Learning Point describes the misconception that results when using the term “formative assessmentS” to describe the formative assessment PROCESS.

This short article by Margaret Heritage summarizes what we know about the potential of formative assessment practice to support and advance learning.

This document provides an important voice to the discussion of formative assessment.

This paper lays out a vision for formative assessment with the hope that the two assessment consortia - PARCC and SBAC - would include formative assessment in their then-emerging assessment systems.