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Join Professor John Hattie as he discusses the importance of fostering an environment where students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning. 

These pre-assessment strategies from Every Math Learner, Grades 6-12, will help to better prepare your students for an exam.

"As educators move to competency-based designs in teaching and assessment, they often realize that their traditional or standards-based grading approaches are inadequate in communicating student learning. These limitations include..." Read the full article by Rose Colby, co-author of Deeper Competency-Based Learning on the CompetencyWorks blog.

This template from Balance with Blended Learning by Catlin R. Tucker gives students a form to look at goals and assess growth over time.

Using this Formative Tracking Sheet from Swanson and Ferguson’s Unleashing Student Superpowers, your students can self-assess their progress across any lesson. (K-12)

Learn how to use this Matrix featured in Realizing Rigor to refine strategies and select student actions. (Secondary)

In this excerpt from Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment, the author explains two types of assessments and how they see each test question as a potential way of gauging not whether a student has learned a standard at an expected level of proficiency and to identify the next step of that skill’s development.

This Hinge Question Implementation Tool from The Formative 5 helps you to organize your thoughts around a single hinge question in order to better assess your students' progress and define next steps for their continued learning.

What if the question were more important than the answer? Download this poster to learn how to engage all students in self-assessment as a formative assessment practice that takes learning deeper with the 6Ps of Quality Questioning.

"I am deeply troubled that many state laws continue to require consideration of change in annual accountability test score as an indicator of student growth for teacher evaluation. This is a patently indefensible policy for a variety of reasons..." Read the full blog from Rick Stiggins, author of Defensible Teacher Evaluation.

Informed by the ideas of 41 educators all over the world who contributed to the fourth edition of How to Grade for Learning, author Ken O'Connor focuses on the four most critical challenges when implementing Standards-Based Grading and Learning in schools and districts and in the classroom. 

Engagement has become a buzz word in education. Teachers face pressure to keep their students active, but bustle and busyness are not the same as engagement. Worksheets and on-line tutorials may keep learners occupied, but not necessarily engaged. Read this blog from Laura Greenstein, author of Restorative Assessment, for a better understanding of what engagement truly is and how you can boost engagement in your classroom.