Classroom Assessment FOR Learning
Rationale:
To maximize student success, assessment must be seen as an instructional tool for use while learning is occurring, and as an accountability tool to determine if learning has occurred.
NEA Student Assessment Series, 2003
The opening of the NEA paper, Balanced Assessment: The Key to Accountability and Improved Student Learning states:
For schools to function effectively as centers of learning, different decision makers—teachers, students, parents, school administrators, state legislators, and other policymakers—need access to accurate and understandable information about student achievement.
The paper states the need “to move classroom assessment into its appropriate role beside standardized testing in a balanced assessment system…”
Listed below is background and contact information for current researchers who place an emphasis on improved classroom assessment as the key to improved student achievement:
For more Information or to schedule an inservice for your district/school, contact Marian Murphy-Shaw 842-8498 .