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.
Inside the Black Box – Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment by Paul Black and Dylan William
This is the seminal article that started the focus on formative assessment, demonstrating the power and promise of the use of such practices.
Instructionally Embedded Modes of Assessment
This tool defines an IEA - which integrates instruction, learning and assessment into instructional sequences. Steps to implement IEA's in classroom use are recommended. A table of IEA's with hyperlinks to examples is provided for quick access and further learning
Interim Assessment: What are some key characteristics?
Learn about some key characteristics you should know when selecting interim assessments. Also see "Learning Resource: Purposes for and Essential Characteristics of Interim Assessment".
Interim Benchmark Assessment – A Typology
This paper describes several ways that interim benchmark assessments can be categorized.
Introduction to the 4 Cs for 21st Century skills
This is a short video from Common Sense Education about the 4 Cs for 21st-century skills.
Jay McTighe’s website
Jay McTighe’s website generously offers many free tools and templates to guide development of performance assessment. Under "Resources", he also provides dozens of links to other websites that house performance tasks or provide guidance for development.
Ladder of Feedback
This template developed by Mary McFarland, Harvard Project Zero, pairs categories of questions to elicit evidence and provide feedback to learners.