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
ALN-Presentation: Four Assessment Capabilities
In this video, ALN presenters Jill Willis, Chris De Luca, Bronwen Cowie, and Christine Harrison describe their research across four countries and what they learned about the Four Assessment Capabilities needed by new and experienced teachers. January 18, 2022 Additional resources for this session may be found at https://bit.ly/3m3p61M
ALN Presentation: Choreographing Connections with SEL 11-9-2021
In this video, ALN presenters Ed Roeber and Heather Vaughan-Southard, describe how the arts reinforce the importance of the Whole Child approach to education and provide immediate, important, and authentic connections and illustrations for teaching and assessing in ways that explicitly address the five core competencies of SEL. (Nafeesah Symonette provided content for this presentation but was not able to attend.) November 9, 2021 Additional resources for this session may be found at https://bit.ly/3nZSer8
ALN Presentation: Jay McTighe 10-7-2021
In this video, ALN presenter Jay McTighe offers activities and presentation material to introduce assessment practices that are useful for promoting deeper learning. October 7, 2021
ALN Presentation: Susan Brookhart April 21, 2021
This ALN presentation by Susan Brookhart addresses the topic Formative Assessment Strategies that Improve Distance Learning Outcomes for Students with Disabilities-4-21-2021. The video also includes lengthy practitioner recordings describing real-classroom examples of each strategy discussed by Brookhart.
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.