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Case Reviews: Implementing the Spirit of Formative Assessment
The following resource provides vignettes about teachers who are attempting to implement formative assessment in their schools. The two vignettes are from a study by...
The Formative Assessment Practices Landscape for Students with Disabilities: An Analysis of State Definitions and Practices, 2021
This report outlines the approaches that state education agencies (SEAs) have taken in defining and using formative assessment practices, including practices to explicitly support students...
K–2 Assessment Systems Enable Early Intervention to Foster Student Success
Across the United States, statewide assessments in English language arts and mathematics are federally mandated each school year in grades 3 through 8 and once...
Academic Achievement through Student Agency: Dallas ISD’s Journey
In 2017, Ben Milam Elementary in the Dallas Independent School District (ISD) engaged in structural work to promote agency, equity, and academic achievement for all...
Critical Content Supporting Statewide Formative Assessment Practice
Formative assessment is enacted by teachers and students, but successful implementation of formative assessment practices depends on stakeholders at every level of the education system....
How School Administrators Can Support and Promote Formative Assessment
Reflecting on the How I Know initiative in the Dallas Independent School District, Susan Villani writes about her work with administrators and educators to implement...
High-Leverage Principles of Effective Instruction for English Learners
New college and career ready standards (CCRS) have established more rigorous expectations of learning for all learners, including EL students, than what was expected in...
Lesson Revision with Formative Assessment
The purpose of this resource is to help teachers revise existing lesson plans so that they incorporate the formative assessment process and align with College...
Formative Assessment Lesson Planning Guide (3 columns)
Original three-column planning guide for formative assessment lesson plans. It has since been revised to include four columns and with fillable fields. The new version can...
Formative Assessment Lesson Planning Guide (4 columns)
Revised four-column planning guide for formative assessment lesson plans. We added a fourth column for teachers to write notes about tasks, resources, steps, and strategies....