Start with purpose when choosing assessments
This Learning Point describes the basic steps in choosing an assessment for use in schools.
Steps in the Right Direction: A Guide to Using and Reporting Assessment Results
This guide can help local educators use student assessment results, as well as the process of reporting the results, to help build public confidence and support, strengthen the family’s role in schooling, and help students learn the challenging standards being assessed.
Student-Centered Assessment Video Suite
Four videos produced by Heidi Andrade and students and teachers from Brooklyn, NY demonstrate key components of self and peer assessment, reflection, and benefits.
Success Criteria
Two-page guide from the Waterloo Region School District's, Assessment Evaluation and Reporting Handbook
Supporting English Learners’ Oral Language Development
This short online article from WestEd Insights by Margaret Heritage and Aida Walqui provides a framework for oral language production of EL students for purpose of understanding how to guide support for students' work and language development.
Supporting School Community Wellness with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) During and After a Pandemic
Authors: Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine; Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann, Ed.D., EdTogether; Marc Brackett, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine This issue brief, created by The Pennsylvania State University, is one of a series of briefs that addresses the future needs and challenges for research, practice, and policy on social and emotional learning (SEL). It explores the role of SEL in promoting wellness during the compounding traumas of a pandemic. The authors identify Bright Spots—examples of how SEL research and practice are being applied to support wellness during this crisis and that may be used in related crises moving forward, and Ripe Spots—opportunities for SEL to support the anticipated needs of schools toward the promotion of school community wellness.
Supporting Teachers Statewide in the Formative Assessment Process- Margaret Heritage
Assessment Learning Network, 2017-18 – Event 4, Event Page
Teacher, Interrupted: Leaning into Social-Emotional Learning Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
This article offers a thoughtful look at the ways we can “lean in” and apply everything we’ve learned about social-emotional learning—for our students and for ourselves.
Teacher Innovation in Response to Current Educational Needs: Factors that Support Teacher Learning about the Formative Assessment Process
In this paper, presented at the NCME Conference 2022, authors Tara Kintz and Ellen Vorenkamp draw on their experience from the field working with Coaches, Learning Team Members, and related professional learning opportunities in the Formative Assessment for Michigan Educators (FAME) program to identify five key factors that promote teacher learning about the formative assessment process.
Teacher Learning Progression: Assessment for Learning (2Revolutions)
This helpful chart describes the performance indicators along a teacher learning progression toward mastery in the use of Assessment for Learning.
Teacher Learning Progression: Performance Assessment (2Revolutions)
This helpful chart describes the performance indicators along a teacher learning progression toward mastery in the use of Performance Assessment.
Teacher Questioning: The Epicenter of Instruction and Assessment
This article describes in some detail the questioning strategies that educators can employ and their impacts on students.