Paper: Motivation, Engagement, and Student Voice, SATC Series, Eric Toshalis, and Michael J. Nakkula
The Students at the Center series explores the role that student-centered approaches can play to deepen learning and prepare young people to meet demands of the 21st century. This paper synthesizes existing research on key components of student-centered approaches.
Performance assessments in the visual arts classroom
This Learning Point describes how performance can be used in the arts.
Performance Assessment – What is it and why is it useful?
Performance assessment is defined, and its use described, in this Learning Point.
Performance Task Worksheet
Brief explanation of performance task as an item type and guidelines to develop tasks, using a "What, Who, How" method.
Phony Advertising: Instructionally Beneficial Standardized Tests
In this op-ed piece, Jim Popham asserts that standardized achievement tests are not especially useful for teacher evaluation.
Planning: What role does it play in the formative assessment process?
This Learning Point describes one of the elements of formative assessment as defined in the Michigan FAME program.
Policies, programs, and practices: Exploring the complex dynamics of assessment education in teacher education across four countries
Deluca, Christopher, Willis, Jill, Cowie, Bronwen, Harrison, Christine, Coombs, Andrew, Gibson, Andrew, et al. (2019) Policies, programs, and practices: Exploring the complex dynamics of assessment education in teacher education across four countries. Frontiers in Education, 4, Article number: 132 1-19.
Policy Brief- Return to School 2020
Policy Report-PA149
This MAC Policy Report is intended to better understand how local educators made sense of and responded to new benchmark assessment requirements during the first year of implementing Section 104 of P.A. 149 of 2020 (Michigan's "Return to Learn" legislation). It answers questions about educators' perceptions and use of interim benchmark assessments; use of the Tools for Teachers website and resources; opportunities for ongoing professional learning; and emerging challenges.
Preparing Michigan Educators in Assessment
This paper presents a model for preparing pre-service teachers who are assessment literate.
Presentation at the Michigan School Testing Conference: Student Growth Percentiles
Roeber and Treder provide short primers for student growth percentiles and caution that the users of these metrics need to understand the pros and cons associated with the various methods.
Principles of Formative Assessment
This document presents twelve principles that undergird formative assessment practices. They were developed by leaders of the Formative Assessment for Michigan Educators (FAME) program after a deep examination of exemplary formative assessment practices in several elementary and secondary school classrooms.