Resource Bank

The Next Generation Science Standards are described in this Learning Point.

This Learning Point describes some key characteristics of summative assessment and describes its role within a balanced assessment system.

This Learning Point explains questioning strategies as a powerful tool for teachers and students to collect and use information about student understanding in order to move learning forward.

This Learning Point summarizes the conditions necessary for effective use of formative assessment practices in a classroom, as originally described in a white paper by Margaret Heritage, Nancy Gerzon, and Marie Mancuso

This Learning Point provides an overview of the components of a balanced assessment system. 

This Learning Point raises awareness of how our common, century-old grading practices perpetuate achievement disparities, and describes the ways teachers and schools might move to more equitable grading practices.

The basics of assessment literacy are described in this Learning Point.

Formative assessment, as defined in the Michigan FAME program, is described in this Learning Point.

The Learning Point briefly describes the six basic assessment understandings needed by educators.

The impact of the Next Generation Science Standards on science assessment is described in this Learning Point.

This Learning Point defines and describes ambitious teaching, provides historical context for its evolution and the need to incorporate this approach in a modern education to prepare students for their futures.

This Learning Point outlines how collaborative scoring is a means to assuring that student work is judged reliably and the training and act can be valuable professional learning and support more use of performance assessment.