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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 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....
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 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 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 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...
State of the States Brief: Standards
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their K-12 content standards (in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) since 2019.
Guidance for Supporting Assessment Peer Review Submissions
This resource provides an overview of the required evidence states need to submit to demonstrate alignment to the Every Student Succeeds Act's Critical Elements. To...
Instructional Practices for English Language Learners During Content Instruction
To support instructors as they support English learners in developing both English proficiency and content knowledge, CSAI developed this brief. This brief provides instructional suggestions...
How Is My Child Doing? What Assessment Can Tell Parents About Their Child’s Learning
This update provides information to parents on how to interpret three common types of assessment their child takes: classroom, district and school interim, and state annual...