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	Standard One: School and District Leadership

	Standard Two: Curriculum, Instruction, And Professional Development

	Standard Three: Classroom And School Assessments
	3.1 Design and Implement Assessment System
	3.2 Multiple Assessments
	3.3 Assessment According to Standards
	3.4 Assessments Aligned to Standards
	3.5 Students Know What is Required
	3.6 Test Scores Used to Inform Instruction
	3.7 Monitoring and Reporting Student Progress
	3.8 State Accountability Program

	Standard Four: School Culture, Climate, And Communication

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	Best Practices Academies

Teachers assess learning, formulate classroom benchmarks based on standards, and communicate the results to students and families with respect to students' abilities to meet Arizona Academic Standards.

In order to answer the board member's questions about student achievement, the schools had to move beyond anecdotal evidence of greater student engagement to a systematic way of demonstrating student achievement that provided much better information than standardized test scores or subjective, nonspecific teacher comments, such as "Great work."

Sherry King and Lauren Campbell-Allan,
Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding

Suggested Evidence

Report cards
Class syllabus
Progress reports
Formative and summative assessments
Grade book

Level of Performance: Exceeds Standards

The teacher uses multiple measures of formative and summative assessments aligned to strands, concepts, performance objectives, and instruction.
The teacher maintains excellent records of student products and performance and uses both to guide instructional decisions.

Related Resources

Tools
AIMS Website
This website provides Arizona teachers, administrators, students, and parents access to the AIMS Hotline phone number for tutoring help, an overview of the AIMS test, sample tests, study guides, and information about tuition waivers.
Publisher: Arizona Department of Education

Articles
Assessment FOR Learning, the Achievement Gap, and Truly Effective Schools
"As the mission of schools changes from ranking students to ensuring that all learn to specified standards, Mr. Stiggins argues that the purpose and form of assessments must change as well."
Author: Rick Stiggins
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: ETS

Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction
This guide provides information about the key elements of a comprehensive assessment plan to improve literacy instruction for adolescents.
Author: Debra Houston Miller and Joseph K. Torgesen
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Center on Instruction

Helping Students Understand Assessment
This article states that formative assessments promote learning when they help students address where they are going, where are they now, and they how can close that gap.
Author: Jan Chappuis
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

What's Right About Looking at What's Wrong?
This article states that by examining the reasoning behind a student's incorrect answer, both the teacher and student can gain new understanding.
Author: Deborah Schifter
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Useful Links
NEW! The Common Core State Standards Initiative
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories and the District of Columbia committed to developing a common core of state standards in English-language arts and mathematics for grades K-12.

Academic K-12 Standards
This page displays the ADE Standards by area and level.
Publisher: Arizona Department of Education

Arizona Department of Education Teacher Resources
This link leads to various teacher resources listed by the Arizona Department of Education.