Assessment of and for Student Learning
Overview:
Assessment informs students and stakeholders of progress and growth toward meeting the school's 21st century learning expectations. Assessment results are shared and discussed on a regular basis to improve student learning. Assessment results inform teachers about student achievement in order to adjust curriculum and instruction.
Indicators:
To jump to each indicator's guiding question, click on the corresponding numbered bullet
Indicator 1: The professional staff continuously employs a formal process, based on school-wide rubrics, to assess whole-school and individual student progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations.
Indicator 2: The school’s professional staff communicates:
Indicator 4: Prior to each unit of study, teachers communicate to students the school’s applicable 21st century learning expectations and related unit-specific learning goals to be assessed.
Indicator 5: Prior to summative assessments, teachers provide students with the corresponding rubrics.
Indicator 6: In each unit of study, teachers employ a range of assessment strategies, including formative and summative assessments.
Indicator 7: Teachers collaborate regularly in formal ways on the creation, analysis, and revision of formative and summative assessments, including common assessments.
Indicator 8: Teachers provide specific, timely, and corrective feedback to ensure students revise and improve their work.
Indicator 9: Teachers regularly use formative assessment to inform and adapt their instruction for the purpose of improving student learning.
Indicator 10: Teachers and administrators, individually and collaboratively, examine a range of evidence of student learning for the purpose of revising curriculum and improving instructional practice, including all of the following:
Indicator 11: Grading and reporting practices are regularly reviewed and revised to ensure alignment with the school’s core values and beliefs about learning.
Assessment informs students and stakeholders of progress and growth toward meeting the school's 21st century learning expectations. Assessment results are shared and discussed on a regular basis to improve student learning. Assessment results inform teachers about student achievement in order to adjust curriculum and instruction.
Indicators:
To jump to each indicator's guiding question, click on the corresponding numbered bullet
Indicator 1: The professional staff continuously employs a formal process, based on school-wide rubrics, to assess whole-school and individual student progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations.
Indicator 2: The school’s professional staff communicates:
- individual student progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations to students and their families
- the school’s progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations to the school community.
Indicator 4: Prior to each unit of study, teachers communicate to students the school’s applicable 21st century learning expectations and related unit-specific learning goals to be assessed.
Indicator 5: Prior to summative assessments, teachers provide students with the corresponding rubrics.
Indicator 6: In each unit of study, teachers employ a range of assessment strategies, including formative and summative assessments.
Indicator 7: Teachers collaborate regularly in formal ways on the creation, analysis, and revision of formative and summative assessments, including common assessments.
Indicator 8: Teachers provide specific, timely, and corrective feedback to ensure students revise and improve their work.
Indicator 9: Teachers regularly use formative assessment to inform and adapt their instruction for the purpose of improving student learning.
Indicator 10: Teachers and administrators, individually and collaboratively, examine a range of evidence of student learning for the purpose of revising curriculum and improving instructional practice, including all of the following:
- student work
- common course and common grade-level assessments
- individual and school-wide progress in achieving the school’s 21st century learning expectations
- standardized assessments
- data from sending schools, receiving schools, and post-secondary institutions
- survey data from current students and alumni.
Indicator 11: Grading and reporting practices are regularly reviewed and revised to ensure alignment with the school’s core values and beliefs about learning.
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