Strengthening Assessment Literacy to Increase Student Achievement

The Learning Forward Summer Institute, taking place July 19-22, 2018, in Portland, OR, is focused on Committing to Equity and Excellence. During this three-day event, participants will engage in the important discussion of how to build educator capacity through the intersection of curriculum, instruction, and professional learning.

In our two-day workshop "Strengthening Assessment Literacy to Increase Student Achievement", our Chief of Academics, Dr. Bonnie Hain and our Director of STEM, Jim Mirabelli, will walk participants through how to use of Evidence Centered Design (ECD) to develop quality formative assessments that better allow educators to drive instructional decisions and to use these assessments to make next-steps instructional decisions.

Participants will engage in the following learning outcomes:

• Develop a deeper understanding of criteria for selecting items and tasks from those provided in curricula and textbooks to best align with learning targets.
• Deepen understandings and apply ECD to write quality formative items/tasks aligned to college and career ready standards.
• Use assessments to advance equitable access to learning for all students;
• Apply understandings of assessment design principles for quality formative assessments to determine next steps to inform instructional decisions.

Learn more about this event: https://institutes.learningforward.org/