We are helping states
connect standards and assessments to policies and practices that hold decision makers accountable for every student's success.
Not exact matches
Of course,
standards, curriculum,
and assessment are all
connected.
Hindsight suggests that implementation of the
assessments might have been more successful,
and politically sustainable, if the new
standards and tests had not been
connected to states» K — 12 accountability systems,
and especially teacher evaluations, until key stakeholders had become acclimated to them.
In reality
standards,
assessments,
and instruction are closely
connected unless they are just irrelevant things.
Common formative
assessments: How to
connect standards - based instruction
and assessment.
Topics discussed include the application of technology in
connecting individuals, building relations
and extending empathy, social media such as Facebook
and Instagram which have
standard tools
and a common language through which individuals can post pictures,
and comment on friends» activity
and training educators in how to deconstruct
standards to build
assessment criteria.
February 21, 2016 — Using an example of one community college student's experience with remedial education, this article
connects the importance of higher
standards and aligned
assessments to student success in higher education.
She also says that principals
and their schools really
connect to the new
assessment when she explains the similarities between edTPA
and National Board Certification, the respected
standard for accomplished teaching that guided edTPA's development.
That way, the actions we take when we plan lessons
and when we analyze
assessments are
connected and part of a continual process of learning how the
standards translate to teaching.
• Identifying key concepts
and skills • Articulating clear, measurable objectives •
Connecting objectives to
standards • Identifying or developing
assessments to match objectives • Understanding the development of concepts
and skills within the course curriculum • Planning to address areas of weakness if needed in the curriculum • Anticipating
and preparing for common misconceptions
and issues
Most recently her work has been directly
connected to the reform in
standards,
assessments,
and accountability, as well as within various projects in NC's Race to the Top initiative.
In the K - 12 context, we can discuss how learning these technologies
connect with literacy
standards and benchmarks
and — whether or not we agree with the politics
and practices of standardized
assessment — how they
connect to improving students» performance in testing situations.
Each practice question covers one Common Core
Standard and comes from the Question Sets in Sadlier
Connect Online
Assessments.
The
standards integrate the four artistic processes — creating, performing, responding,
and connecting — with the skills
and knowledge, sample
assessments,
and criteria necessary for successful arts learning.
In that sense, then, they can be identified just as
standards are,
and they can easily be
connected to
assessment items that inform well the position of the student along the path toward meeting the goal of the
standard.