learning progressions

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...

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...

This paper by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ray Pecheone outlines a set of principles that are shared by the systems of high‐achieving nations as well as a number of high‐achieving states in the United States. These systems include the following:

• Assessments are grounded in a thoughtful,...

This resource is a learning progression for high level thinking, with a focus on analysis, use of claims and evidence, reasoning, question posing, and attention to multiple perspectives. It was designed by Learner‐Centered Initiatives, to assist teachers in recognizing and assessing the nature...

This resource includes learning progressions for active learning, including: self‐assessment and use of feedback, perseverance and revision, collaboration and taking initiative. It was designed by Learner‐Centered Initiatives to assist teachers in recognizing and assessing the development of...

The purpose of this report is to describe a science competency model and 3 related learning progressions, which were developed by applying the CBAL™ approach (Bennett & Gitomer, 2009) to the domain of middle school science. The Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and ...

Prior work on the CBAL™ mathematics competency model resulted in an initial competency model for middle school grades with several learning progressions (LPs) that elaborate central ideas in the competency model and provide a basis for connecting summative and formative assessment. In...

This article shows how learning progressions — describing how students’ skills develop over time — can support teaching and assessments. It begins with a brief overview of research on learning progressions under the CBAL project, in order to demonstrate how test performance supports inferences...

This paper provides the rationale and foundation for the building and sharing knowledge key practice for the CBAL™ English language arts competency model. Building and sharing knowledge is a foundational literacy activity that enables students to learn and communicate what they read in...

Current educational standards call for students to engage in the skills of research and inquiry, with a focus on gathering evidence from multiple information sources, evaluating the credibility of those sources, and writing an integrated synthesis that cites evidence from those sources....

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature review on the development of key argumentation skills to lay a foundation for a framework of the key practice, discuss and debate ideas, which is centrally involved in the expectations for academic reading and writing. Specifically, the...

This paper presents a framework intended to link the following assessment development concepts into a systematic framework: evidence-centered design (ECD), scenario-based assessment (SBA), and assessment of, for, and as learning. The context within which we develop this framework is the English...

In the broadest sense, learning progressions describe how students’ learning typically develops across and within domains of mathematics. In this way, learning progressions can help teachers to understand the learning experiences that could support individual and groups of students in making...

In this report, Phil Daro, Frederic Mosher, and Tom Corcoran describe what learning trajectories are and how they can be used in mathematics. Specifically, the report describes strategies for using learning trajectories for assessment, instructional purposes, and the development of the Common...