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Assessment Resources
Restorative Assessment
Strength-Based Practices That Support All Learners
by Laura Greenstein
Learn to use restorative assessments to promote equity, reduce conflict, and encourage student success—with real-world examples, action points and reflection questions, and practical strategies.
Designing and Using Performance Tasks
Enhancing Student Learning and Assessment
by Tracey K. Shiel
Ready to stretch your students’ thinking? This how-to guide will show you how to incorporate performance tasks as a tool to teach, monitor, and extend student learning.
Quality Questioning, 2nd Edition
Research-Based Practice to Engage Every Learner
by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes
Quality questioning enhances student outcomes by engaging all students to generate useful formative feedback and deep dialogue. Discover tools, strategies, and videos to support classroom use.
The ABCs of Educational Testing
Demystifying the Tools That Shape Our Schools
by W. James Popham
Build fundamental knowledge and free yourself from testing fogginess with this conversational book framed around practical actions you can take to strengthen your assessment literacy.
Balanced Assessment Systems
Leadership, Quality, and the Role of Classroom Assessment
by Steve Chappuis, Carol Commodore, and Rick Stiggins
This comprehensive new guide helps education leaders create a standards-based assessment program that supports ESSA implementation, balances formative and summative approaches, and empowers faculty and students.
So much MORE than Assessment Design!
Discover how teacher teams can intentionally align standards, instruction, assessment, and data analysis to ensure greater student learning.
Assessment-based professional development that encourages educators to partner with students and drive instruction that impacts learning.
Bring teams of educators together to intentionally align their pre- and post-common formative assessments, generate high-quality learning intentions derived from the standards and appropriate success criteria, and plan for learning progressions with formative quick checks that lead to attaining the standard and provide evidence-based assessment.
Learn more about our Teacher Clarity program or our CFA 2.0 program
Testimonials
“One of the hardest tasks for teachers is to align pre- and post- classroom assessments to best measure the change or progress made between two occasions. Such assessments need to have questions anchored on a common scale (i.e., whatever is measured on each occasion should be the same construct) and anchored on a common difficulty scale. Larry Ainsworth spells out how classroom teachers can work together to create such tasks, which allows a major focus, as it should, on using progress to help monitor learning and adapt teaching.”
–John Hattie, Professor of Education and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
University of Melbourne, Australia
“One of my more memorable experiences as a school administrator happens whenever I see educators change their practice, not because of a mandate or policy change, but as a result of professional learning. I have seen this occur repeatedly as my teachers have learned how to design a quality assessment using the CFA 2.0 framework.”
–Tommy Thompson, Principal, New London High School
New London, CT
