Assessment - ELA
Assessment - ELA
- Connecticut State Department of Education—Student Assessment News
- Connecticut State Department of Education Comprehensive Assessment Program Portal - This site provides access to resources for the Smarter Balanced Assessments in Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy, NGSS Assessments, and the Alternate Assessment.
- Connecticut State Department of Education - SAT Information/Resources
- Connecticut State Department of Education Comprehensive Assessment Program Portal: Practice and Training Tests - The purpose of these training tests is to become familiar with the system, functionality, and item types; the tests are not intended to guide classroom instruction. The training tests are designed to provide students and teachers with opportunities to quickly familiarize themselves with the software and navigational tools that they will use for the upcoming Smarter Balanced Assessments for Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy.
- Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments -This site provides important background information on the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments as well as links to resources to support classroom instruction.
- Smarter Balanced Assessment Rubrics: English Language Arts/Literacy – Smarter Balanced Rubrics to evaluate Brief Writes, Argumentative, Explanatory, Informational, Narrative, and Opinion writing are provided. (Select Rubrics/ELA)
- LDC Core Tools: 2016-2017 Student Work Rubrics - The new LDC student work rubrics, created by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), allow teachers to quickly and easily create rubrics that are specifically aligned to the exact content and standards in the tasks they are building for their students. Select "Student Work Rubrics." View the video listed below for additional information to get started. (core tools.ldc.org)
- LDC CoreTools: 2016-17 Student Work Rubrics Introductory Video
- CT State Assessment Guide — This guide provides Connecticut-specific information about assessment consortium, testing timelines, sample test questions, impacts on students, new accountability systems and ways for parents to get involved and support their child’s learning at home. (National PTA)
- Formative Assessment Resources: Try Them Today, Tomorrow, or Sometime Soon (Smarter Balanced in collaboration with Teaching Channel)
- Guide to Using the OER Rubrics and the EQuIP Rubrics (achieve.org)
- Linking Assessment with Reading Instruction for ELL Students (lexile.com)
- What If Assessment Was Used to Elevate Learning Rather than to Rank Students? - In this blog from Tchers’ Voice on 1-08-15, Ron Berger the Chief Program Officer for Expeditionary Learning answers this question with examples. (teaching channel)
- Assessments That Deliver Results – In this blog from Tchers’ Voice on 2-26-16, Brian Sztabnik provides tips on developing assessments as learning and for learning, and not just as a measure of learning. (teaching channel)
- Tchrs’ Voice, a Teaching Channel blog - Back-to-School Backpack: Think About Assessment -This blog offers many ways to think about assessment with live links to resources. (teaching channel)