Educational Assessment

Progress monitoring measures are brief, repeated assessments that show whether a student is growing over time in a specific skill.

Portfolio assessment scoring is the process of judging a collection of student work against defined criteria rather than a single

Student work sampling is a practice in which a teacher examines a selected set of student products, such as essays,

Evidence collection portfolios are organized sets of student work gathered over a period of time to show what a learner

Learning objectives mapping is the practice of connecting each stated goal for a course or unit to the lessons, activities

Assessment alignment to standards describes how closely the tests, quizzes and tasks a teacher uses match the learning goals that

Teach to the assessment describes the practice of shaping daily lessons around the questions, formats, and standards that will appear

Cognitive validity considerations refer to the question of whether a test task actually calls on the mental processes it claims

Assessment for multilingual learners refers to the practice of measuring what students know and can do when they are still

Language proficiency supports are the deliberate strategies teachers use to help students understand and use academic language while they learn