ALN Presentation: Jay McTighe 10-7-2021
In this video, ALN presenter Jay McTighe offers activities and presentation material to introduce assessment practices that are useful for promoting deeper learning. October 7, 2021
ALN Presentation: Planning, Practice, and Reflection
In this video, ALN presenters Tara Kintz and Margaret Heritage explore the planning, practice, and reflection cycle that promotes effective use of the formative assessment process. March 9, 2023. Additional resources for this session may be found at https://www.michiganassessmentconsortium.org/event/planning-practice-and-reflection
ALN Presentation: Re-framing Rigor 1.17.23
In this webinar, three leaders from the New Paradigm for Education school in Detroit described how they have re-defined "rigor" and explored how deep learning and assessment are being actualized in an urban setting to realize achievement of high expectations with all students. Use the chapter quick-links in the video counter to navigate to specific sections of the day's events. Related resources can be found on the ALN event page at https://www.michiganassessmentconsortium.org/event/reframing-rigor.
ALN Presentation: Susan Brookhart April 21, 2021
This ALN presentation by Susan Brookhart addresses the topic Formative Assessment Strategies that Improve Distance Learning Outcomes for Students with Disabilities-4-21-2021. The video also includes lengthy practitioner recordings describing real-classroom examples of each strategy discussed by Brookhart.
ALN Presentation—Creating Coherence: Instruction and assessment in secondary classrooms that engages and motivates today’s learners
In this video, ALN Presenter Christina Ponzio, PhD, an assistant professor of literacy studies at Grand Valley State University, explores the disciplinary literacies of English language arts and features examples that engage students in authentic purposes for reading, writing, speaking/listening, and viewing. 12.5.2024
ALN Session Chat-Teaching Through Students, Not To Students
In this 8-minute video, presenters Heather Vaughan-Southard, Tara Kintz, Nafeesah Symonette, and Ellen Vorenkamp summarize key focal points from their April 17, 2024 ALN session that explores how embodied equity within quality curriculum, instruction, and assessment improved outcomes for all students. In the video, they answer three key questions: 1. What are the big ideas relating equity to measuring student learning? 2. How does quality curriculum, instruction, and assessment champion equity? 3. How does culturally responsible instruction and assessment look and feel?
Alternative models for educator evaluation. MAC 2018
This ThinkPoint describes two methods for educator evaluation.
An Approach for Evaluating the Technical Quality of Interim Assessments – Peabody Journal of Education, Vol 85 Issue 2
This article describes how to evaluate the quality and utility of interim benchmark assessments.
An Assessment to Every Purpose, Under Heaven – Marianne Perie
Assessment Learning Network, 2017-18 – Event 2, Event Page
A New Era for Educational Assessment
Paper by David T. Conley (2014) written for Students at the Center, a project outlining the practices necessary to advance 21st century learners. www.studentsatthecenter.org (SATC)
A New Look at Public Assurance: Imagining the Possibilities for Alberta Students
This policy paper recommends the use of assessment information for accountability purposes that include both large scale summative and classroom level formative assessment.
A New Reality: Getting Remote Learning Right
An Educational Leadership Special Report | Volume 77. Published April 2020 to support schools during building shut-downs necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.