Resource Bank

This Learning Point considers the mutually strengthening relationship between student-centered classrooms, the formative assessment process, and performance assessments.

Learn about some key characteristics you should know when selecting interim assessments. Also see "Learning Resource: Purposes for and Essential Characteristics of Interim Assessment".

Interim benchmark assessments are described in this Learning Point.

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

This Learning Point describes some of the nuances of calculating and using growth scores in educator evaluation.

This Learning Point explains why and how models of proficient achievement are important in the formative assessment process to support learners

In this white paper prepared for the Dell Foundation Formative Assessment Project, authors: Margaret Heritage, Nancy Gerzon and Marie Mancuso, describe the conditions that are necessary in a school or district to achieve successful implementation of formative assessment

Effective use of the formative assessment process can improve learning for all students, and it is particularly helpful for students with disabilities. And it can be especially important for distance learning, which sometimes can feel to students like an endless “to-do” list with no particular goal in mind.

This Learning Point describes how performance can be used in the arts.

Performance assessment is defined, and its use described, in this Learning Point.

This Learning Point describes one of the elements of formative assessment as defined in the Michigan FAME program.

This Learning Point explains why and how activating prior knowledge is important to the formative assessment process.