Tag: formative assessment
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Progress Monitoring That Matters: Using Validated Score Interpretations to Evolve Balanced Assessment Systems
There is growing consensus that a single end-of-year assessment provides student learning information too late to be instructionally supportive. For this reason, roughly 25% of states are moving to or piloting some type of progress monitoring assessment system to help determine if students are growing during the year. One of the reasons I advocate for…
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Creating a Strategic Plan for Competency-Based Education
Our education system may not be cultivating the workforce of tomorrow. A recent article in Forbes shows that many managers believe Gen-Z workers lack essential skills like problem-solving, collaboration, creativity, and the ability to engage in productive conflict resolution. As a result, these young graduates are less likely to be hired. Brandt et al. (2025)…
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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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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…
Actionable Assessments in the Classroom 