formative assessment

Creating a System for Evaluating and Supporting Effective Teaching

Equity Issues
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Channa Cook
Ann Jaquith
Madlene Hamilton
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In this report, Linda Darling-Hammond outlines an integrated approach for a teaching-career continuum and a professional development system that supports effectiveness for teachers at every stage of their careers. The report includes specific guidance about how performance assessments based on...

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A New Era for Educational Assessment: Full Report

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Education Policy Analysis Archives, Jobs for the Future
David Conley
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In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote student achievement while simultaneously meeting system accountability needs.  This article presents a vision for a new system of assessments, one designed to support the kinds of ambitious teaching...

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Analyzing the Costs of Performance Assessment

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Lawrence O. Picus
Frank Adamson
William Montague
Margaret Owens
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This paper is one of eight written through a Stanford University project aimed at summarizing research and lessons learned regarding the development, implementation, consequences, and costs of performance assessments. 

As the paper shows, the bulk of the costs for any assessment system...

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A New Era for Educational Assessment: Executive Summary

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Jobs for the Future
David Conley
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In this paper, David T. Conley, well-known for his influential research on college readiness, draws on a wealth of recent research to argue that the time is ripe for a major shift in educational assessment, from an over reliance on standardized tests of math and reading, which tell us little...

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QPA Student Work Analysis — A Formative Assessment Tool

Learning from Student Work
Center for Collaborative Education (CCE)
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This resource outlines a five step process for teachers to collaborate as they categorize student work and identify future learning objectives.

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Common Assignment Study Criteria for Unit Quality

Planning Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
Common Assignment Study, Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
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This resource outlines elements of unit quality as well as guiding questions to promote collaborative analysis of student work.

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Framework For Designing A Performance Task

Task Templates and Design Process
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), Asia Society, Stanford University School Redesign Network
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This resource provides a detailed guide on how to train teachers to formally score student performance assessment work that has been submitted for a grade, as a part of graduation portfolio requirement, for a diploma endorsement, or as part of a college application (summative purposes...

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Deeper Learning For All: Transforming State Policy To Transform Student Outcomes

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)
Robert Rothman
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This resource focuses on the importance of adopting multiple policies to adequately help schools focus on “21st century skills,” deeper learning competencies—the ability to use knowledge to think critically and solve problems, to communicate effectively, to collaborate, to reflect on learning—...

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