Table of Contents
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Welcome- Module Orientation
Pre-Assessment- Unit 1: Introduction and Overview
- Unit 2: California State Assessment System
- Standardized Testing and Reporting Program
- New State Assessment System
- Smarter Balanced Assessments
- Computer Adaptive Technology
- A Balanced Assessment System
- Assessment Methods and Item Types
- Smarter Balanced Preliminary Blueprints
- Smarter Balanced Practice Tests
- Supporting All Students in California’s Assessment System
Summary of Unit 2
- Unit 3: Assessment Literacy for Educators
- Purposes and Uses of Assessment
- Assessment Information Usage
- Types of Assessment Information
- Integrated Teaching-Assessment Cycle
- Assessment Literacy at the Classroom Level
- Assessment Literacy Defined
- Assessing Student Learning
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Attributes of Assessment-literate Teachers
- Summary of Unit 3
- Unit 4: Developing Standards-based Instructional Learning Targets
- Preparing and Planning for Instruction and Assessment
- Planning for Instruction and Assessment
- Assessment Targets
- Developing Instructional Learning Targets
- Summary of Unit 4
- Unit 5: A Balanced Assessment System
- Multiple Levels of Assessment
- Sources of Assessment Data
- Effective, Appropriate Use of Assessments and Assessment Data
- Categorizing Different Types of Assessments
- Summative Assessment: Assessment of Learning
- Formative Assessment Practices and Tools: Assessment for Learning
- Peer Assessment
- Assessment Vignettes
- Summary of Unit 5
- Unit 6: Identifying, Developing, and Implementing Sound, Quality Assessments
- Identifying, Selecting, and Developing Appropriate Classroom Assessments
- Key Concepts in Accurate Measurement: Validity
- Key Concepts in Accurate Measurement: Reliability
- Key Concepts in Accurate Measurement: Fairness
- Assessment Accessibility
- Selecting and Developing Appropriate Classroom Assessments: Assessment Methods
- Developing Better Assessments
- Instructionally Embedded Formative Assessment: Checking for Understanding Strategies
- Checking for Understanding on a Daily Basis
- Using Think-Pair-Share to Check for Understanding
- Summary of Unit 6
- Unit 7: Analyze & Act: Appropriate & Effective Use of Assessment Data
- Assessment Data
- Using Rubrics to Evaluate Student Work
- Involving Students in Using Rubrics
- Analyzing and Interpreting Data: Mining Item-Level Data
- Acting on the Data: Now What, So What?
- Developing Instructional Adjustments and Interventions
- Effective Feedback
- Student Reflection and Goal Setting
- Students’ Use of Data
- Steps for Goal Setting
- Goal Setting from Constructed-Response Assessments
- Helping Students Adjust Their Learning Tactics
- Summary of Unit 7
- Module Summary
Post-Assessment- Certificate of Completion
Glossary- Resources
- Unit 1 Introduction and Overview
- Unit 2 California Assessment System
- Unit 3 Assessment Literacy for Educators
- Unit 4: Developing Standards-Based Instructional Learning Targets
- Unit 5: A Balanced Assessment System
- Unit 6: Identifying, Developing and Implementing Sound, Quality Assessments
- Unit 7: Analyze & Act: Appropriate and Effective Use of Assessment Data
- Module Evaluation
Sources of Assessment Data
A vision for the future is that assessments at all levels—from classroom to state—will work together in a system that is comprehensive, coherent, and continuous. In such a system, assessments would provide a variety of evidence to support educational decision-making. Assessment at all levels would be linked back to the same underlying model of student learning and would provide indications of student growth over time."
— Pellegrino, Chudowsky, & Glaser 2001
The graphic below illustrates how a standards-based assessment system that is comprehensive, coherent, and continuous might look. Such a system is described as “A range of assessments, from minute-by-minute to the annual state assessments, providing different levels of detail about student learning over time to be used for various decision-making purposes” (Heritage 2010).
Sources of Assessment Data
As Margaret Heritage explains in Formative Assessment, Making it Happen in the Classroom (2010), each level of assessment illustrated in the graphic above assesses “different sized chunks of learning, providing information on the degree to which students have progressed toward meeting specific instructional learning targets and, ultimately, to mastery of the content standard.”
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