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3.1 Design and Implement Assessment System School leadership designs and implements an assessment system that supports the needs of all stakeholders (i.e., students, teachers, administrators, parents, governing board members, community members) when appropriate. 
Suggested Evidence
Level of Performance: Exceeds Standards
Related Resources Tools NEW! Common Core Implementation Workbook This tool provides information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises to assist in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Achieve Building an Interim Assessment System: A Workbook for School Districts This workbook contains the vision, infrastructure, and resource questions critical to a thorough, district-level self-examination of readiness for an interim assessment system. Author: Eric Crane Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Council of Chief State School Officers Helping Every Student Succeed: Schools and Communities Working Together This article describes how community-wide study circles in which large numbers of community members simultaneously meeting in small groups can be used to discuss how all students in the community can succeed academically and develop specific actions to meet those goals. Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Study Circles Resource Center, Topsfield Foundation, Inc. Making Data Work: A Parent and Community Guide This guide shows how data on their children’s education is important for parents, how to interpret both individual student and schoolwide data, and how that data can be used. Publisher: Education Trust Sample Parent Communication Log This tool provides a sample parent communication log. Remember to keep an individual log for each student, contact parents immediately if you have concerns about their child, and make sure to list the reason for contacting that parent. Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Education World Articles NEW! 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 NEW! Assessing the Assessment: Rubric Training for Pre-service and New In-service Teachers This article explains how rubric training can lead to the increased reliability of assessments. Author: Michael Lovorn, Ali Reza Rezaei Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation Journal NEW! Building Professional Development to Support New Student Assessment Systems This report makes makes eight recommendations to ensure a healthy professional development infrastructure in districts and schools. Author: Stephanie Hirsh Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Learning Forward NEW! Tiered Interventions in High School: Using Preliminary “Lessons Learned” to Guide Ongoing Discussion This guide discusses the essential components of RTI, and highlights factors unique to high schools. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: The National High School Center and the National Center on Response to Intervention 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 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 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 Co-Constructing Family Involvement In order to discuss the co-construction of home-school partnerships to support children’s learning and development, the authors of this article point out 5 constructs that can serve children from kindergarten through high school. Author: M. Elena Lopez, Holly Kreider, and Margaret Caspe Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) 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 Foundations for Success: Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement This report examines the experiences of three large urban school districts that have raised academic performance for their district as a whole while also reducing racial differences in achievement. Author: Jason Snipes, Fred Doolittle, and Corinne Herlihy Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: MDRC Helping Students Cope with Test Anxiety This article discusses the characteristics of test anxiety and provides some suggestions to help students overcome the fear of testing. Author: Henry L. Harris and Doris R Coy Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) 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) Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide This Guide provides educational practitioners with user-friendly tools to distinguish practices supported by rigorous evidence from those that are not. Author: Institute of Education Sciences Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences Improving Teaching and Learning with Data-Based Decisions: Asking the Right Questions and Acting on the Answers This article discusses the importance of developing questions, collecting and analyzing data, and providing staff support to make effective use of the data when using a data-based assessment. Author: Nancy Protheroe Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Educational Research Service Interim Assessments: A User's Guide The author argues that in order to reduce achievement score gaps, we must advocate rebalancing assessment priorities to bring classroom assessment into the equation. Author: Kim Marshall Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century This publication discusses assessments that measure college and career readiness, performance assessments, benchmark assessments, assessing high school students who are English language learners and students with disabilities, and the benefits of international assessments. Author: Lyndsay M. Pinkus Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education Narrowing the Literacy Gap in Middle and High School: A Framework for School-Wide Intervention This article disucsses the importance of providing a coherent and coordinated school-wide literacy acceleration program that increases the amount of time, teaching, and practice available to all struggling readers. Author: Kevin Feldman Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: California Services for Technical Assistance and Training Parent Partners: Using Parents to Enhance Education (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) Publication Date: 1999, March Publisher: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Supporting Ways Parents and Families Can Become Involved in Schools Parent involvement creates a huge impact on students' attitude, attendance, and academic achievement. This critical issue reading gives ideas on how teachers can create a better partnership with families. Publication Date: 1996 Publisher: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) Tapping into the Power of Longitudinal Data This article discusses the benefits of a longitudinal data system. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: National Association of Secondary School Principals The ABCs of RTI: A Guide for Parents This document provides information regarding the use of RTI to identify and instruct children with specific learning disabilities. Author: Donald D. Deshler, Melinda A. McKnight, and Daryl F. Mellard Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities The Home and School Team This article provides strategies and resources parents can use to understand the types of assessments that are used in schools. Author: Roberta Furger Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Edutopia Using a Classroom Webpage to Communicate with Parents Parent communication has always been an important factor in supporting a child's education. This article discusses ways that teachers can use a classroom website to convey daily or weekly information to parents. Author: Sydney Brown Publisher: LearnNC- University of North Carolina Using Data in Leadership for Learning This article discusses the challenges involved in using data effectively as well as the important role data plays in school reform. Author: Lorna Earl and Michael Fullan Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Journal of Education Useful Links 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 Homework Tips for Parents Homework has been a part of students' lives since the beginning of formal schooling in the United States. However, the practice has sometimes been accepted and other times rejected, both by educators and parents. This document presents research concerning homework, and gives examples of how parents can express positive attitudes about the value of success in school to their children. Publication Date: 2003, May Publisher: U.S. Department of Education RTI Action Network The RTI Action Network is a foundation based on the implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) in school districts. Science Resource Page This page provides links to help teachers implement the Arizona Science Standard, including links to the Science Standard, AIMS information related to science, ADE professional development opportunities, state and national organizations, and resources for science teachers. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Tool Kit for Hispanic Families This toolkit provides information on what to expect from schools, teachers and children. It also provides ways to help your child through school, what resources are available, and what your family and community can do to help in the learning process. Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Other Resources NEW! How Middle School Mathematics Teachers Use Interim and Benchmark Assessment Data This study examines how various forms of interim assessments influence teachers' judgments of student understanding of mathematics as well as the influence of assessment results on teachers' instructional strategies. Author: Lorrie A. Shepard, Kristen L. Davidson and Richard Bowman Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National Center for Res on Eval Standards and Student Testing ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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