Developing Balanced Assessment Systems

Explore Seven Essential Actions to Achieve Assessment Balance and Quality and Positively Impact Student Learning
without traveling or breaking your budget

Learn how you can create the conditions necessary to support a balanced assessment system that enables district personnel at any level to use both formative and summative assessments to gauge student progress toward meeting state standards, and delivers on the promise of assessment-informed instruction.

Participate in this online workshop to determine the status of these conditions in your district or school and create an action plan for achieving success.

Learn from Rick Stiggins

Participants will learn from Rick Stiggins, founder and executive director of the Assessment Training Institute, through live sessions, discussions on video, and guided readings from the new 3rd edition of Assessment Balance and Quality: An Action Guide for School Leaders by Stephen Chappuis, Carol Commodore and Rick Stiggins. It's a powerful new learning model for school and district leaders with limited time or budget for travel.

Watch a video of Rick Stiggins discussing the importance of balanced assessment systems.

Timeline: 6, one-hour online sessions over 6 weeks, plus:

• Live author Q&A with Rick Stiggins, founder and executive director of the Assessment Training Institute
• Self-paced learning sessions with video to fit into your time constraints

Key Takeaways:

• How to create a balanced assessment system with quality classroom, interim / benchmark and annual assessments that support and verify student learning
• How research-based assessment practices can positively impact teaching and learning
• How to create an action plan for implementing successful assessment practices

Participant Outcomes:

During six online sessions, participating school and district leadership teams will:

• Evaluate the extent to which they have taken seven essential assessment actions
• Create their own action plan for moving forward on completion of these essential actions
• Conduct a self-analysis of their preparedness to provide leadership in assessment
• Learn how to advance their own assessment literacy

Agenda

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The Seven Essential Assessment Actions

The path to achieving assessment balance and quality is mapped in seven assessment actions that local school leaders can take to make this vision a reality:

1. Balance your local assessment systems to meet all key user's information needs
2. Refine achievement standards to reflect clear and appropriate expectations at all levels
3. Ensure assessment quality in all contexts to support sound instructional decision making
4. Help learners become assessors by using assessment for learning strategies in the classroom
5. Build communication systems to support and verify student learning
6. Motivate students with learning success
7. Provide the professional development needed to ensure a foundation of assessment literacy throughout the system

Who Should Participate

This working program is designed for local school or district leadership teams interested in using classroom, interim/benchmark and annual assessments to support and to verify student learning.

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