This research - based report includes tips for creating a supportive culture for informative assessing in your school, a guide to support implementation of
assessment culture for administrators, and much more.
Key to changing this attitude is a well crafted, engaging and
balanced assessment culture integrated into the instructional framework of the classroom.
All Things Assessment and the Solution Tree Assessment Center were created to support educators in improving their
current assessment culture and practices.
I would argue that
this assessment culture is the single biggest challenge facing professional development and school improvement.
The intent of all this is to reduce the anxiety that is historically ubiquitous in
the assessment culture and replace it with a calm self - confidence built through purposeful and clear learning success.
Since then, a review of the evolution of
our assessment culture reveals the almost complete dominance of a blind faith that high - stakes accountability testing — local, state, national, international and interplanetary — is the way to improve schools.
What is
the assessment culture of your classroom, school, and district?
We have to reengage both our «summer slide» students, and those chronically unengaged, into a learning and
assessment culture that allows students to see that the fruits of their labors pay dividends in the sweet success of learning, and not simply an assessment culture of «remembering.»