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Aligned Assessment for Student Learning
CONTENT
Aligned Assessment for Student Learning
- Assesses student learning in ways that are meaningful and consistent with the nature and purpose of instruction.
- Improves teachers’ ability to identify student progress and maximize future performance.
CONTEXT
Environment for Aligned Assessment for Student Learning
- A plan exists to support a coherent, continuous system for alignment of assessment practices with instruction.
- School and district grading policies support aligned assessment in mathematics and science.
- Teachers have the background knowledge and skills needed to effectively implement aligned assessment strategies.
PROCESS
Aligned Assessment Strategies Considerations
- Strategies are in place to identify and clarify valued student learning outcomes.
- Teachers examine their current classroom assessment strategies to see if they measure valued student learning outcomes.
- Professional development opportunities are available to assist teachers in assessment alignment as well as the effective use of formal and informal assessment tools.
- Teachers examine current research to inform their assessment practices.
- Teachers assess student learning formatively and summatively.
- Teachers use assessment data to drive improvements in instructional practice.
- Teachers benchmark their assessments against state and national standards.
Program Assessment
CONTENT
Program Assessment:
- Data inform decisions about instructional improvement.
- Data are collected in ways that ensure relevance, accuracy and timeliness.
- Data are analyzed for meaning in guiding instructional improvement.
- Data are reported to internal and external stakeholders.
CONTEXT
Environment for Program Assessment:
- A school-wide culture of data driven decision-making guides efforts to improve the science/mathematics program.
- A plan exists for collecting, analyzing and reporting data about the science/mathematics program.
- Data collection is not limited to student learning and includes an assessment of program resources, needs, and impacts.
PROCESS
Program Assessment Considerations
- Research and best practice inform the identification of indicators of program success.
- Data collection practices measure the identified indicators of program success.
- A variety of effective formal and informal data collection tools are developed and/or identified to measure indicators of program success.
- Program assessment tools allow for collection of data for all key school infrastructure components as identified by the MSU Theory of Action for Instructional Improvement.
- Program assessment allows for benchmarking against state and national standards.
- Administrators and teachers are engaged in program assessment.
- Administrators and teachers apply data in making instructional decisions.
- Professional development opportunities in program assessment strategies are available.
- Key leaders keep abreast of the research on program assessment.
- Indicators of program success are shared with a broad audience of stakeholders.
