Elementary School (K-5) – Page 43 – Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning

This resource is an archived webinar from the Literacy in Learning Exchange, a coalition of stakeholders representing experts and organizations in advancing literacy learning. This webinar presents formative assessment strategies for guiding literacy instruction in all content areas. It is led by two secondary-level educators from a school district in Champaign, Illinois: Scott Filkins and […]

Video: Counting Collections: Kindergarten – A Common Core Classroom Friendly Exercise

This is a video of kindergarten math instruction aligned to college and career ready standards. Students work in pairs to create collections of 5 or 10 objects and record their counting process. The teacher checks in with the different groups to hear their thinking and advance their learning, i.e., to begin thinking about grouping the […]

Model Curriculum

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) Model Curriculum Units consist of a unit overview, lesson plans, embedded performance assessments, and ideas for instructional resources. The design teams used Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2011) to structure the units. There are six units for grades 7-8, and there are nine units for […]

Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessments (CEPAs): Policy Considerations for Meaningful Accountability

Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessments (CEPAs) are instructional content-area units designed for consistency between what is taught, assessed, and how teachers are prepared. CEPAs combine elements of formative assessment and performance assessments to promote deeper learning outcomes. CEPAs are generally designed, implemented, and scored at the local level, and performance assessments usually are composed of a task, […]

Next Generation Science Standards: Considerations for Curricula, Assessments, Preparation, and Implementation

From the authors: “Many states’ science standards are based on guidance documents created by the National Research Council in 1996 that do not reflect the scientific advances and educational research findings that have since occurred. Among options for policymakers to consider to update existing standards are the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a set of […]

Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability

From the overview: “we call for replacing our current, unbalanced formula of summative assessments and external pressure with a new, more balanced formula for assessment and accountability centered around curriculum-embedded performance assessments or CEPAs’ classroom-based instructional units that provide multiple opportunities for learning and both formative and summative evidence-gathering. Done well, CEPAs can harness the […]

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

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