Measuring students’ progress toward achieving mastery of specific skills and standards is an essential aspect of our work as educators. In thinking about assessment, we must move past thinking about testing events, and more about what assessment is and why we do it...
Assessment For Learning: using information about students' knowledge, understanding, and skills to inform our teaching practice and providing feedback to students about how to improve.
Assessment As Learning: involving students in the learning process to monitor their own progress and work toward their learning goals through self-assessment and reflection.
Assessment Of Learning: using evidence of student learning as a way to measure the impact of our teaching practices