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By creating and using effective assessments, educators can create a culture of learning where students are engaged and invested in their own success.
Developed for teachers, teams, instructional coaches, and school and district administrators, this workshop offers rich dialogue and practical techniques for improving assessment practices. Deepen your understanding of formative and summative assessments, and learn how to design assessments that guide instruction, involve students, and communicate learning.
You will also gain access to an electronic Google folder that contains assessments designed using the Design in Five process. These examples will act as guides as you and your team create meaningful assessments that help all students achieve at high levels.
Learning Objectives
Explore high-quality assessment and grading practices.
Learn how to use the Design in Five process to develop effective assessments.
Apply tools to ensure assessments guide instruction and learning.
Discover how to recognize the cognitive level of assessment items and tasks.
Identify and apply characteristics for high-quality rubrics, constructed response, multiple choice, and performance tasks.
Learn how to accurately analyze formative assessment results to increase student learning.
Examine ways to effectively communicate assessment scores.
Nicole Dimich has a passion for education and lifelong learning, which has led her to extensively explore, facilitate, and implement innovative practices in school improvement. She works with elementary and secondary educators in presentations, trainings, and consultations that address today’s most critical issues, all in the spirit of facilitating improved support of student learning.
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Activity Handouts
Materials are copyrighted. Workshop participants may print these pages for personal use and note-taking during the event. Additionally, pages marked “Reproducible” can be reproduced freely without permission as long as they are not reprinted in a formal book that is published and sold; copyright lines on Reproducible pages must remain intact. Otherwise, no part of these materials may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission of Solution Tree. Please contact pubs@SolutionTree.com for permission to duplicate any materials.
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On-site and continental US only.
You will receive a certificate of participation within six weeks after the event concludes.
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