k-12

English Language Arts
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
Karin Hess
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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...

English Language Arts
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
Karin Hess
4
Average: 4 (1 vote)

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...