Formative Feedback Navigating the complexity of engaging student thinking
Providing and managing formative feedback in anonline learning environment is considered in the webinar featured on this event page.
Foundations of Meaningful Educational Measurement
This textbook keeps technical measurement terms in check for practitioners, helping to deepen their understanding. (2009) McGraw Hill
Four assessment capabilities: What they are and why our children would want their teachers to have them
Graduating teachers often feel under-prepared for the current contexts of assessment they will face as beginning teachers. Even experienced teachers can feel uncertain when it comes to assessing student learning. In this ThinkPoint document, research colleagues Jill Willis, Bronwen Cowie, Christine Harris, and Chris DeLuca describe four assessment capabilities identified during their four-year study across four countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom— from the perspective of pre-service teachers.
FREE School Resources for Navigating Emotional Times (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence offers this collection of articles, resources, and free webinars to help all leaders, educators, students, and families in their effort to build and sustain positive emotional climates.
Free SEL Course for School Personnel (YCEI)
This course, "Social and Emotional Learning in Times of Uncertainty and Stress: Research-Based Strategies," is delivered by leading experts in the fields of psychology, education, and research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. There is no course fee due to a generous grant from Dalio Education.
Fundamental Assessment Principles for Teachers and School Administrators
This article presents basic assessment learning principles for teachers and administrators.
Getting to the heart of authentic Assessment for Learning
This article describes the essential features of assessment for learning from an international perspective. It also contrasts assessment for learning and formative assessment.
Grading and competency-based education
This ThinkPoint considers the principles of grading within competency-based education (CBE) models as a means through which teachers can establish the dual goal of securing success for all students (as evidenced in high grades) while also strictly aligning grades with achievement.
Grading and the formative assessment process
This ThinkPoint considers how teachers might promote deep learning through enactment of the formative assessment process in the context of traditional grading systems.
Grading for learning: Guidelines for supporting student success
This Learning Point outlines 8 guidelines recommended by Ken O'Connor necessary to shift from traditional grading practices to those that align with standards and support learning.
Guidance 2020: Grading for Learning
The return to school grading and reporting guidance framework is published to clarify the essential elements and components of grading, and the principles that support accurate, fair and equitable grading practices in light of school disruption caused by COVID-19. The guidance augments the Governor's executive orders and MAISA GELN's Continuity of Learning Guidance.
Guidance 2020: High-Quality Assessment System
The return to school assessment guidance framework is published to clarify the essential elements and components of an assessment necessary as schools return for the 2020-21 academic year. The guidance takes into account the Governor's executive orders and MAISA GELN's Continuity of Learning Guidance.