Tag: actionable assessments
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Is Your Student Stuck in the Same Stage of Learning?
Four Key Assessment Use Strategies to Increase Student Achievement M. Christina Schneider Moss and Brookhart (2019) in their book, Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom: A Guide for Instructional Leaders, defined formative assessment as a teacher and student collaboration using systematic processes to (a) collect, (b) analyze and (c) take action to improve learning based…
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Market Research as Context and Evidence to Support Innovation
Items along a test scale should show as red, green, and blue to denote a learning progression but in the graphic readers see the messy green and blue intermixing with no clear differentiation between the middle and advanced stage.
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From Multiple Choice to the Beyond!
Case Studies in English Language Arts: Part 2 In the first blog of this series, I argued that when teachers use multiple-choice items as the predominate way of measuring student learning, it is difficult (to near impossible) to uncover what students are thinking. Many students enter and exit their grade in roughly the same relative…
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To Multiple Choice and Beyond!
Case Studies in English Language Arts: Part 1 As a teacher, how do you know if your students are on track for meeting the expectations for year-end performance in the state standards? During the year we may see that many students spend large amounts of time in a similar stage of learning whereas other students…
Actionable Assessments in the Classroom 