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3.2 Multiple Assessments Multiple and varied assessments and evaluation strategies are used appropriately and effectively. 
Suggested Evidence
Related Resources Tools Authentic Assessment Toolbox This webpage provides information on authentic assessments, as well as provides examples of what they look like. Author: Jon Mueller Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: North Central College Hot Potatoes Activities and Quiz Maker The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website. Publisher: Half-Baked Software Inc. Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom This article outlines basic steps for planning and implementing effective performance-based assessments in the classroom. The article addresses topics such as defining the purpose and criteria of the assessment, choosing the activity, creating performance rubrics, and providing feedback to students. Author: Amy Brualdi Publication Date: 1998 Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Developers This guide is intended primarily for educators providing professional development on how to conduct teacher assessment. The toolkit presents rationales for various aspects of the assessment process and provides training activities for each section. Sample district assessment tools are also included. Publisher: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention [K-12] This kit, developed by the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, is a tool to help educators navigate changes related to specific learning disability determination and responsiveness to intervention. Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: National Research Center on Learning Disabilities Questions to Ask When Evaluating Tests This article presents standards to consider when evaluating tests. Issues addressed include test use, validity (criterion, content, and construct), norming, reliability, bias, administration, and reporting. Author: Lawrence Rudner Publication Date: 1994 Articles A Summary of Nine Key Studies: Multi-Tier Intervention and Response to Intervention for Students Struggling in Mathematics This report summarizes nine studies regarding evidence-based practices for Tier 2 interventions, as well as explains how to use RTI to help students struggling to learn mathematics. Author: Benjamin Clarke, Russell Gersten, and Rebecca Newman-Gonchar Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Center on Instruction Assessing Student Progress with a Rubric In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of using rubrics in the classroom, and how these rubrics can be used as formative assessment instruments. Author: Harry and Rosemary Wong Publication Date: 2006, October Publisher: Teacher.Net Gazette Benchmark Assessments for Improved Learning This article discusses the role of benchmark assessment in a balanced assessment system. Author: Joan L. Herman, Ellen Osmundson, & Ronald Dietel Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading This article discusses engaged reading and instructional contexts that foster reading engagement and motivation. Author: John T. Guthrie Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Reading Online Enhancing Student Learning This article explains how profound achievement gains can be created using formative assessments. Author: Rick Stiggins and Jan Chappuis Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: District Administration Extensive Reading Interventions in Grades K-3: From Research to Practice This report summarizes available data on the effects of extensive reading interventions (comprising at least 100 instructional sessions) and related implications for practice. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Jeanne Wanzek and Joseph K. Torgesen Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Finding Balance: Assessment in the Middle School Classroom This article mentions how a balanced assessment program can help teachers better assess student learning. Author: Stephen Chappuis and Rick Stiggins Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: National Middle School Association Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom This article discusses how a balance of formative and summative assessments can provide a clear picture of achievement. Author: Catherine Garrison & Michael Ehringhaus Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: National Middle School Association Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom This article discusses how to to balance both summative and formative classroom assessment practices and information gathering about student learning. Author: Catherine Garrison & Michael Ehringhaus Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: National Middle School Association Formative Assessment and Next-Generation Assessment Systems: Are We Losing an Opportunity? This article discusses the common misconceptions of formative assessment, and then provides descriptions and the distinctions of effective formative assessment instruction. Author: Margaret Heritage Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Council of Chief State School Officers How Classroom Assessments Improve Learning (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) "The assessments best suited to guide improvements in student learning are the quizzes, tests, writing assignments, and other assessments that teachers administer on a regular basis in their classrooms," says Guskey. "To use classroom assessments to make improvements...[teachers] need to see their assessments as an integral part of the instruction process and as crucial for helping students learn." Author: Guskey, T.R. Publication Date: 2003, February Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice This report focuses on interventions designed to improve students' use of reading comprehension strategies. It also considers the impact of interventions that target improved reading vocabulary, accurate decoding of unfamiliar words in text, and increased reading fluency. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Greg Roberts, Sharon Vaughn, Meaghan Edmonds, Jade Wexler Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Making Assessment Work for Everyone: How To Build on Student Strengths (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) Author: Patricia Kusimo, et al. Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: WestEd Screening for Mathematics Difficulties in K-3 Students [K-3] This report looks at the key features needed to screen kindergarten through third grade students for difficulties in mathematics. Author: Benjamin S. Clarke, Russell Gersten, Nancy C. Jordan Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction The Best Value in Formative Assessment This article describes the usefulness and differences of summative and formative assessments. Author: Stephen Chappuis and Jan Chappuis Publication Date: January 2008 Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) The Concept of Formative Assessment The author discusses the importance of the "many opportunities" to assess how students are learning and then use this information to make beneficial changes in instruction during the course of a year. Resources for teachers interested in formative assessment are included. Author: Carol Boston Publication Date: 2002 Use of Education Data at the Local Level: From Accountability to Instructional Improvement This report discusses local practices in implementing data-driven decision making. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools, commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, discusses eleven specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help improve the writing abilities of the country’s 4th- to 12th-grade students. Author: Steve Graham and Dolores Perin Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education Useful Links AZ Response to Intervention (RTI) The Response to Intervention (RTI) process is a multi-tiered approach to providing services and interventions to all learners at increasing levels of intensity. This page offers resources to Arizona educators regarding the academic and behavioral system of support. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Connecting Formative Assessment Research to Practice: An Introductory Guide for Educators This publication provides an introductory overview of effective formative assessment. Author: Christopher Brandt and Nick Pinchok Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Learning Point Associates Criteria for Selecting Diagnostic Assessments This webpage offers a series of questions that should be asked when evaluating the quality of data tools. Publisher: Data Use for Improving Learning/CRESST Federal Resources for Educational Excellence This site, created in 1997 by over 30 agencies, lists hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources in an easy to find format. Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Other Resources Arizona Department of Education's Assessment Section This link leads to the Assessment Section of the Arizona Department of Education. The Assessment Section provides for the development of Arizona academic content standards that describe what students need to know and be able to do, articulated by grade level. S&A also provides for the procurement and administration of a nationally standardized, norm-referenced achievement test and the development and administration of standards-based test (AIMS) to measure student achievement of the Arizona academic content standards. Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making This guide offers five recommendations to help educators effectively use data to monitor students’ academic progress and evaluate instructional practices. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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