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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...
Accelerate Success for English Learners With Formative Assessment: Introduction
Helping Multilingual Learners succeed requires advancing their English proficiency while also engaging them in grade-level academic content. This brief is the first in a series...
Accelerate Success for English Learners: Formative Assessment Support for Integrated and Meaningful Language Learning
This brief highlights how quality instruction for English Learners integrates language development with academic content and analytic practices. By designing rich, authentic tasks that focus...
Accelerate Success for English Learners: Students Work Beyond the Edge of Their Current Abilities With Formative Assessment
This brief emphasizes how quality instruction for English Learners helps them work just beyond the edge of their current knowledge and abilities. It explains how...
Accelerate English Learner Success: Students Take Ownership Over Their Learning With Formative Assessment
This brief examines how quality instruction empowers English Learners to develop agency, confidence, and self-regulation while advancing their language skills. Through formative assessment practices like...
Accelerate English Learner Success: Students Participate in Collaborative Discussions
This brief underscores the importance of structured collaborative discussions in supporting English Learners to build content knowledge, develop language skills, and engage in analytic practices....
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....