Models of proficient achievement: Why are they important?
This Learning Point explains why and how models of proficient achievement are important in the formative assessment process to support learners
Module 1: Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series
In this module you will learn what common assessments are, on which learning targets they might be based, and why common assessments are so important.
Module 2: What Is a Common Assessment
In this module you will learn what common assessments are, on which learning targets they might be based, and why common assessments are so important.
Module 3: Determining the Outcomes of the Common Assessments
Module 3 will help your team explore the different purposes of assessment, as well as how the purpose can affect the assessment design.
Module 4: Identifying Learning Targets for the Common Assessment
This module describes the entire series and how to use them to create and use high quality common assessments.
Module 5: Matching the Assessment Methods to he Learning Target
Taking a closer look at the various types of learning targets, this module describes how to match them to appropriate assessment methods.
Module 6: Assessing Students with Special Needs
The goal of this module is to describe and illustrate ways students with special needs can be more fully included from the start in common assessments.
Module 7: Writing the Test Blueprint
Module 7 will introduce users to the development of a test blueprint that should guide the common assessment construction and use.
Module 8: Writing Selected Response Items–Part 1
In this module you will learn how to write high quality multiple-choice items.
Module 8: Writing Selected Response Items–Part 2
In this module you will learn how to write high quality multiple-choice items.
Module 9: Writing Constructed-Response Items
This module will review the various types of constructed-response items,the benefits and drawbacks of this type of item and provide some guidelines for development of them.
Module 10 Writing Performance Assessments
Module 10 explains how to break from traditional paper-pencil assessments by developing and using performance assessments.