Best Practices Series — On-Site Workshop Topics

Student Assessment For and Of Learning (Advanced)
Designing Ready-to-Use Standards-Based
Classroom Assessments

Learn how to create powerful assessment tools to effectively monitor, measure, and document student learning. This practical, how-to training will guide participants through a step-by-step process of developing classroom assessments based on targeted concepts and performance objectives from the state standards. The workshop will highlight the specific uses of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment in a comprehensive approach to classroom-based assessment that prepares students for AIMS and other high-stakes assessments. You will leave this experience able to answer the essential question, “What do effective teachers do to diagnose the instructional needs of students (pre-instruction), monitor their academic progress (during instruction), and evaluate their level of achievement (post instruction)?”

Specific topics to be addressed include:

• The need for alignment between instruction and formative and summative assessment
• The importance of multiple and varied assessment measures
• Assessment results as tools for both teacher and student
• Students’ role and responsibility in their assessment
• The use of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to gauge the “cognitive demand” of both instruction and assessment
• Value of evaluating the quality and overall integrity of assessment tools
• The power of “common” or collaboratively developed and scored formative and summative assessments

Don’t miss this opportunity to become a more effective assessor of student learning!