How do instruction and assessment contribute to academic confidence in learners?
This Learning Point, excerpted from Rick Stiggins' book, Give Our Students the Gift of Confidence (Corwin, 2023), describes the context of teaching and learning in American classrooms, its impact on the emotional dynamics of learner success and failure, and how those dynamics affect each learner’s developing confidence or self-doubt.
How do students with disabilities participate in state and district assessments?
This Learning Point describes why students with disabilities participate in state assessment and how. And outlines the requirements in IDEA.
How do we design assessment systems for modern learning?
This Learning Point summarizes a framework for curriculum elements and assessment principles that address all the learning goals we have for modern learners/21st century learners.
How might collaboration create a state of assessment literacy?
This Learning Point describes how the Assessment Learning Network can promote collaboration on assessment learning.
How might we achieve balance through a comprehensive system of science assessment? MAC 2018
This ThinkPoint describes how balanced between assessment for and of assessment can be achieved.
How might we measure what matters most? It’s time for an assessment overhaul
The abrupt and unprecedented disruptions to education brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in considerable changes to business as usual in K-12 schools and universities. This ThinkPoint by noted author and speaker Jay McTighe proposes a fundamental question concerning the alignment between our high-stakes assessments and the goals of a modern education, and proposes a 3-part system that would provide a more comprehensive assessment of learning out¬comes that matter, while averting many of the acknowledged problems of current accountability testing.
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School: Expanded Edition (2000)
Book: How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School: Expanded Edition (2000) The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine offers a free PDF download of this book. This book is based on cognitive science research. It adds to our understanding of what it means to know. The book examines these finds and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. "
How performance assessments strengthen the formative assessment process and help promote student-centered instruction
This Learning Point considers the mutually strengthening relationship between student-centered classrooms, the formative assessment process, and performance assessments.
How Teachers Engage with Assessment for Learning: Lessons from the Classroom
Marshall and Drummond provide some history, about the origins of the concept of assessment for learning and the emergence of the term formative assessment
How to Design a 21st Century Assessment
Contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets.
How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards
This source is a suggested resource to supplement the November 22nd, 2019 ALN event.
Individual Leadership Action Tool
Self-assessment survey for team, building, or central office leader about assessment knowledge and practice.