Online formative assessment strategies that help students with disabilities
Effective use of the formative assessment process can improve learning for all students, and it is particularly helpful for students with disabilities. And it can be especially important for distance learning, which sometimes can feel to students like an endless “to-do” list with no particular goal in mind.
Ottawa Area ISD Remote Learning Framework
This helpful document was prepared by educators in the Ottawa Area ISD to provide guidance around how a district, school, or program might think through developing a Remote Learning system for students and families.
Overview of Assessment OF and Assessment FOR Learning – James W. Pellegrino
Assessment Learning Network, 2016-17 - Event 1, Event Page
Paper: Motivation, Engagement, and Student Voice, SATC Series, Eric Toshalis, and Michael J. Nakkula
The Students at the Center series explores the role that student-centered approaches can play to deepen learning and prepare young people to meet demands of the 21st century. This paper synthesizes existing research on key components of student-centered approaches.
Performance assessments in the visual arts classroom
This Learning Point describes how performance can be used in the arts.
Performance Assessment – What is it and why is it useful?
Performance assessment is defined, and its use described, in this Learning Point.
Performance Task Worksheet
Brief explanation of performance task as an item type and guidelines to develop tasks, using a "What, Who, How" method.
Phony Advertising: Instructionally Beneficial Standardized Tests
In this op-ed piece, Jim Popham asserts that standardized achievement tests are not especially useful for teacher evaluation.
Planning: What role does it play in the formative assessment process?
This Learning Point describes one of the elements of formative assessment as defined in the Michigan FAME program.
Policies, programs, and practices: Exploring the complex dynamics of assessment education in teacher education across four countries
Deluca, Christopher, Willis, Jill, Cowie, Bronwen, Harrison, Christine, Coombs, Andrew, Gibson, Andrew, et al. (2019) Policies, programs, and practices: Exploring the complex dynamics of assessment education in teacher education across four countries. Frontiers in Education, 4, Article number: 132 1-19.
Policy Brief- Return to School 2020
Policy Report-PA149
This MAC Policy Report is intended to better understand how local educators made sense of and responded to new benchmark assessment requirements during the first year of implementing Section 104 of P.A. 149 of 2020 (Michigan's "Return to Learn" legislation). It answers questions about educators' perceptions and use of interim benchmark assessments; use of the Tools for Teachers website and resources; opportunities for ongoing professional learning; and emerging challenges.