Learning Progressions & Frameworks

This full report defines Learning Progressions as well as highlights how this methodology can be used for curriculum development and assessment.  The Literacy Learning Progressions describe the specific literacy knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students draw on in order to meet the reading...

Karin Hess defines Learning Progressions (LP) and outlines four interrelated guiding principles behind LP:

1)  LPs are developed (and refined) using available research 

2)  LPs have clear binding threads that tie together concepts with processes

3)  LPs articulate movement...

In this paper, Karin Hess, and Jacqui Kearns describe how learning progressions can be used in curriculum development and assessment.  Learning progressions propose the intermediate understandings between these anchor points that are “reasonably coherent networks of ideas and practices...that...

The goal of this paper is to introduce the ways in which dimensions of engagement may be meaningfully incorporated into assessment tasks so that all students are more fully motivated to complete the tasks and perform them well.  This report begins with an overview of research on student...