Learning Opportunities

Without appropriate, high quality assessment, even the best curriculum and instruction is diminished.  For this and other reasons, assessment cannot be treated as an afterthought, but rather as a key element of an overall teaching strategy. 

The learning series “Assessment Matters” is designed to provide practical strategies and approaches to making the best quality assessment instruments.  The series will also include discussion on how to most effectively use information gathered through assessing, to provide achievement information to students, parents, and other audiences.

Each session will include hands-on activities and time for you to discuss assessment issues and how such issues may be best resolved.

Some of the topics that will be addressed are:

• Understanding program standards
• Assessing for the big ideas
• Applying the principles of fair assessment
• Making the best use of formative assessment
• Benefitting from blueprinting
• Constructing rubrics and other scoring methods
• Making high quality multiple choice and other selected-response items
• Crafting appropriate constructed responses and performance assessments
• Providing effective exemplars of student work
• Offering meaningful feedback
• Understanding standardized assessments

Target Audience

All Teachers, Teacher Leads, Instructional Leaders, Learning Coaches, Administrators and anyone who is interested in improving their assessment practices