Fuchs and Fuchs’ (2006) Introduction to Response to Intervention: What, why, and how valid is it? highlights the important features of Response to Intervention, explicate much of the RTI vernacular, […]
This Self-Assessment Tool designed by the Colorado Department of Education Exception Student Services Unit provides guidance to schools for the implementation process of a Response to Intervention model. According to […]
Reeves (2006) refers to data walls as “One of the most powerful techniques educators and school leaders can use to improve decision making in the classroom, school, and district…” (Reeves, […]
The Massachusetts Department of Education defines a data wall as “… a visual representation of data related to specific question or problem” (“Building data walls,” 2010, pg. 1). The purpose […]
The following resources provide relevant examples of assessment literacy professional development approaches. http://www.assessmentacademy.net/Assessment101/tabid/55/Default.aspx http://qualityinstruction.org/trainings/assessment-literacy http://ati.pearson.com/events-training/leading-professional-development-in-seven-strategies-of-assessment-for-learning.html
This article situates the need for assessment literacy in a current educational context, and provides descriptions of four separate assessment literacy-training programs intended to improve assessment literacy among experienced and […]
Volante & Fazio (2007) examined the assessment literacy of teacher candidates enrolled in a teacher education program at the university level. This study provided said candidates with a survey designed […]
This study conducted by Mertler & Campbell (2005) intended to develop an instrument that could accurately measure educators’ assessment literacy. The Assessment Literacy Inventory, or ALI, was then examined in […]
This article by Popham (2009) begs the question, “Is assessment literacy merely a fashionable focus for today’s professional developers or, in contrast, should it be regarded as a significant area […]
Assessment Literacy for the 21st Century discusses the importance of being familiar with the characteristics of sound assessment strategies, provides “redefined” definitions of the goals of assessment literacy, and identifies […]