Module 19: Establishing Validity
In this module you will learn about the concept of validity as it applies to your common assessment and why it is important.
Module 20: Assembling the Final Common Assessment
Module 20 will guide you through the process of assembling the final common assessments.
Module 21: Assessment Administration and Scoring
This module will help you learn how to prepare to administer, score and report you newly created assessments.
Module 22: Standard Setting
How good is good enough? This module will help users set standards on the new common assessment.
Module 23: Presenting the Results of the Assessment
The topic of this module is to learn about different ways to represent the data to make it useful when reporting assessment information to various audiences.
Module 24: Using Data to Improve Instruction
Learn how to use the results of the common assessment through professional conversations to improve teaching and learning.
Moving Toward a Comprehensive Assessment System: A Framework for Considering Interim Assessments
This article lays out a conceptual framework for interim assessments, distinguishing them from so-called "formative assessments."
Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education
This paper by Katherine Casey (iNACOL 2018) invites a reflection on adaptive change, exploring the purpose of competency-based education, the traditional beliefs and values that CBE challenges. It also explores the technical changes needed to shift culture and practice, and the systems, structures, and policies needed to support that shift.
Narrative Reporting
The use of narrative reports is an ideal tool to keep parents/guardians apprised of the learning and achievement of their children. It is an important step in assuring continuity of learning. This paper describes good practice around narrative reporting—an excellent way to communicate student achievement and understanding in a meaningful manner, regardless of where learning occurs.
National Core Arts Standards, SEADAE, 2014.
This site includes the national core arts standards, for Dance, Media Arts, Music Theatre and Visual Arts and Model Cornerstone Assessments based on the artistic processes of creating, performing, producing/presenting, responding and connecting. The model assessments are performance assessments.
Neccessary Conditions for successful implementation of formative assessment
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
New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission
This article describes mistaken and new beliefs about assessment.