High School (9-12) – Page 5 – Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Teacher Stages of Development in Formative Assessment

What does it look like as teachers develop formative assessment knowledge and skills? This table captures qualitative data collected over multiple WestEd projects to conceptualize teachers’ shift in mindset and practice.

Guiding Questions for Leading Formative Assessment

This template offers guiding questions for leaders to use as a self-assessment or in dialogue with peers, to explore their use of the five principles in WestEd’s Formative Assessment Leadership Framework.

Arc of Learning: Student and Teacher Quotes

This resource shows student and teacher quotes on a continuum from beginner to advanced practice, and the model is a tool to deepen teachers’ fluency for noticing emerging skills of agency in their classrooms.

Teacher Reflections on Shifts in Practice and Mindsets

This post originally appeared on the Getting Smart website, it captures the reflections of three teachers in their first year of learning and applying formative assessment.

Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Ensuring Comparability Across Administrations

State test scores are valuable because unlike measures such as student grades, they can be directly compared to other students’ scores and across schools or districts. To achieve comparability, the tests are standardized and go through a statistical process called equating. Key Takeaways Comparability is the ability to compare test scores across time. Standardization helps […]

Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Ensuring That Assessments Accurately Measure Academic Standards

Test developers collect validity evidence to provide support for the interpretations and uses of the test scores. Validity evidence comes from multiple sources including what’s being tested, how students respond to the questions, the internal structure of the test, how the scores relate to other types of data, and the reliability of the scores. The […]

Grade Level: High School (9-12)

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