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.
Leading by Learning-Brookhart & Moss 2013
This article describes how school leaders can become more effective by learning about formative assessment.
Leading Modern Learning (second edition)
Learning Loss: Are we defining the problem correctly? By Harvey F. Silver and Jay McTighe
Learning Map- Prioritizing and Assessing Standards to Accelerate Student Learning
a free Asynchronous Professional Learning Map was prepared by the Michigan Assessment Consortium and offered in partnership with MAISA’s General Education Leadership Network (GELN) Continuity of Learning Task Force. It is one of a library of Learning Maps available on GELN’s interactive website to support local professional learning plans and provide high-quality resources to all teachers across Michigan in 2020-21. It includes hyperlinks to all suggested resources, coordinated to support the learning of groups or individuals from engagement through extending the learning.
Learning Progressions: Supporting Instruction and Formative Assessment
This article describes how learning progressions support the effective use of formative assessment practices.