Sep
30
Assessment Learning Network Series
The Michigan Assessment Consortium (MAC) is committed to helping educators leverage assessment to achieve equitable access and outcomes for all students. MAC and GELN will…
Sep
30
Disciplinary Literacy and Student-Centered Assessment: A Perfect Combination
Monday, September 30, 2024The Assessment Learning Network (ALN) kicks off the 2024-25 season with an in-person engagement that includes learning and networking. Elizabeth Birr Moje, well known for…
Apr
17
Teaching Through Students, Not To Students:
Wednesday, April 17, 2024Join us for this in-person event that features an opportunity for Lunch & Networking from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m, with presentation and dialogue to…
Feb
22
Stealth Assessment in Games to Measure and Support Learning
Thursday, February 22, 2024We know that games are engaging; but they can also be powerful vehicles to support learning. This, however, hinges on getting the game design as…
Jan
11
Using the Science of Joyful, Deeper Learning to Rethink Assessment
Thursday, January 11, 2024Research suggests that students forget as much as 90 percent of what they learn in the classroom within 30 days of learning—largely because the traditional…
Oct
20
How Assessment Practice Can Develop Confidence in Learners
Friday, October 20, 2023Join us for this in-person event that features Rick Stiggins, lunch, and networking. This session explores the emotional dynamic of learner success and failure…
Apr
27
Moving Together Toward Assessment Systems that Support Learning
Thursday, April 27, 2023We’ll bring our 2022-23 learning together in this networking and resource sharing session designed to help us review our ALN learning and plan to put…
Mar
09
Planning, Practice, and Reflection
Thursday, March 9, 2023When implemented effectively, the formative assessment process has the potential to double the rate of student learning (e.g., Wiliam, 2007). While there is increasing agreement…
Jan
17
Re-framing “Rigor”
Tuesday, January 17, 2023This session re-frames Rigor from a 4-letter word (more or hard) to ambitious outcomes for ALL students. New Paradigm for Education (NPFE) is operationalizing the…
Nov
02
Standards-Based Learning, Assessing, Grading and Reporting
Wednesday, November 2, 2022We know moving from a “traditional” grading system to one that is based on standards (and how students are achieving in relation to those standards)…
Apr
08
Leveraging the Power of Formative Feedback: Using self- and peer assessment to promote meaningful student engagement
Friday, April 8, 2022The theme for the 2021-22 Assessment Learning Network is leveraging assessment to achieve equitable access and outcomes for all students through an emphasis on assessment…
Mar
10
How does the formative assessment process support ambitious teaching, and vice versa?
Thursday, March 10, 2022The theme for the 2021-22 Assessment Learning Network is leveraging assessment to achieve equitable access and outcomes for all students through an emphasis on assessment…