From the Common Core State Standards to Rigorous Instructional Practice: Creating Knowledge Around the Development and Use of Formative Assessment Tools

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represents an unprecedented opportunity to transform educational practice. That most states have agreed to the CCSS creates a cross-state platform for change and enables the development, refinement and dissemination of powerful and flexible tools to facilitate the transformation. This interactive symposium focuses on the development and implementation of formative assessment tools for teachers’ classroom use supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Specifically, it examines the role of multi-method assessment and evaluation in refining Foundation strategy, tool development and rollout. After researchers briefly identify salient methodological issues and key findings from early empirical work, the audience, Foundation leaders, and researchers will explore implications for knowledge generation and use.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Section 3: Curriculum, Testing, and Instructional Practice

Chair

• Kathleen M. Shaw, Research for Action

Papers

• Knowledge Creation and Use in Assessment and Evaluation of Classroom-Based Formative Assessment Tools in Mathematics - Joan L. Herman, University of California - Los Angeles; Eva L. Baker, University of California - Los Angeles

• Validation of Instructional and Assessment Tasks in Literacy - Carole J. Gallagher, WestEd; Stanley N. Rabinowitz, WestEd

• Teaching to the Core: The Implementation of Secondary Lessons in Math and Literacy Based on the Common Core Standards - Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Research for Action; Nancy Lawrence, Research for Action; Felicia Charron Sanders, Research for Action; Kathleen M. Shaw, Research for Action

• Literacy-Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning - Raymond Pacheone, Stanford University; Stuart R. Kahl, Measured Progress

Discussant

• Ash Vasudeva, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation