A District Persepctive on the Value of Prioritizing Standards to Promote Learning 2020-21
The recorded interview and Summary Handout features Donna Jakubik, prinicipal Maples Elementary School. This principal explains why and how her staff engaged in prioritizing standards to help focus and align assessment practice as they prepared for Fall 2020.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Thinking About Literacy, Learning Progressions and Instruction
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Thinking About Literacy, Learning Progressions and Instruction
Alternative models for educator evaluation. MAC 2018
This ThinkPoint describes two methods for educator evaluation.
An Approach for Evaluating the Technical Quality of Interim Assessments – Peabody Journal of Education, Vol 85 Issue 2
This article describes how to evaluate the quality and utility of interim benchmark assessments.
An Assessment to Every Purpose, Under Heaven – Marianne Perie
Assessment Learning Network, 2017-18 – Event 2, Event Page
A New Era for Educational Assessment
Paper by David T. Conley (2014) written for Students at the Center, a project outlining the practices necessary to advance 21st century learners. www.studentsatthecenter.org (SATC)
A New Look at Public Assurance: Imagining the Possibilities for Alberta Students
This policy paper recommends the use of assessment information for accountability purposes that include both large scale summative and classroom level formative assessment.
A New Reality: Getting Remote Learning Right
An Educational Leadership Special Report | Volume 77. Published April 2020 to support schools during building shut-downs necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
An introduction to different kinds of data
This article is a summary of an ASCD book on the different types of data collected and used or different purposes.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Growth Models
This guide commissioned by CCSSO provides a description of growth models currently used in education. The paper was authored by Andrew Ho and Katherine Castellano.
A Practitioner’s Introduction to Equating: CCSSO, 2018
This primer explains what equating is, common misconceptions, basic terms, designs for equating, the mechanics of equating, and the inferences that can be drawn as a result of equating tests. (Copyright © 2007–2009 by the Council of Chief State School Officers. © 2018 by the Council of Chief State School Officers, A Practitioner’s Introduction to Equating, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
A Primer on Student Growth Percentiles
This paper provides an accessible review of student growth percentiles used in growth models.