Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

Assessment Literacy Standards: A National Imperative

The purpose of this publication is to increase assessment literacy for policymakers, district and school administrators, teachers, and students. To do so, the authors have created assessment literacy standards for each stakeholder group. Emphasis is on maximizing assessment benefits, reducing negative consequences, increasing assessment literacy and improving student achievement. The publication includes an assessment glossary. Several very short appendices describe assessment development, assessment purposes, assessment methods, […]

Michigan Assessment Consortium

The Michigan Assessment Consortium is a professional association that works to advance assessment literacy by promoting assessment knowledge, providing professional development, and producing and sharing assessment tools. This web site contains white papers, presentations, videotapes of assessment concepts, a listing of upcoming Michigan assessment-related events, and recordings of videoconferences. 

Assessment Literacy Project

This site provides online professional development in assessment literacy for educators. The information is organized into a series of modules, each of which begins with a video of Dr. James Popham. Educators also participate in activities and read articles as part of the learning process. Along with other information, this professional learning clearly defines the various […]

Khan Academy

Khan Academy aims to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. It uses micro lectures on multiple topics in the form of YouTube videos and includes practice exercises and tools for educators. People can participate in Khan Academy as students or coaches (teachers). The major components of Khan Academy include: a personalized learning engine to help people […]

Moving from Compliance to Agency: What Teachers Need to Make Professional Learning Work

This resource reports on research conducted by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) and Learning Forward. It seeks to uncover the reasons why teachers’ experience with professional learning has been generally unhelpful at facilitating their classroom work that impacts student learning. In the introduction, the report states, “we have come to believe that to transform […]

Teacher’s Guides and Analysis Tools

The Library of Congress has developed a tool for analyzing primary sources and other media. The tool has three columns for students to record observations, reflections, and questions. At the bottom on the tool, there is a box for students to write notes about next steps for further investigation. To support teachers’ use of this […]