Assessments

**What is it we want our students to learn?**
grade or level of instruction?
 * Endurance: Will this provide students with the knowledge and skills that will be of value beyond a single test date?
 * Leverage: Will this provide knowledge and skills that will be of value in multiple disciplines?
 * Readiness: Will this provide the students with the essential knowledge and skill necessary for success in the next
 * School, Life, and State Test: Will this help students be sucessful in these areas?

**How will we know if each student has learned it?**

 * SMART (Strategic and Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-Based and Time-bound)

**How will we respond when some students do not learn it?**

 * Pyramid of Intervention
 * How can we extend and enrich the learning for students who have** **demonstrated proficiency?**
 * Enrichment

**For assessments to become an integral part of the instructional process, teachers need to change their approach in three important ways:**

 * 1) ====use assessments as sources of information for both students and teachers,====
 * 2) ====follow assessments with high-quality corrective instruction, and====
 * 3) ====give students second chances to demonstrate success.====

**Gathering evidence of current levels of student learning**

 * 1) ====Developing strategies and ideas to build on strengths and address weaknesses in that learning====
 * 2) ====Implementing those strategies and ideas====
 * 3) ====Analyzing the impact of the changes to discover what was effective and what was not====
 * 4) ====Applying new knowledge in the next cycle of continuous improvement====