Assessment Collaborative Resources

This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model.

Choose soft edges over hard edges to deliver assessment for learning and student engagement. Align students’ and teachers’ needs with assessment practices meant to meet learning targets. Use responsible assessment methods to smoothly guide students so confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant.

Explore six essential tenets of assessment that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to meet standards and enhance your students’ academic success.

Discover how to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts.

This essential collection of nine resources will help you build an invaluable foundation of knowledge to stand on and plan from.

Discover how to ensure schoolwide grading practices center on four essential criteria: fairness, accuracy, specificity, and timeliness.

The time for grading reform is now. Discover the steps your team can take to implement standards-based practices that transform grading and reporting schoolwide.

Explore the practical steps teacher teams must take to establish clear, comprehensive assessment systems that guide instruction and strengthen PLCs.

Discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments.

Discover how to work with your school team to create innovative, effective, engaging assessments using a five-phase design protocol.