Preparing for Short-Term Assessment

Rationale: In order for the information from any assessment to be useful, it must inform teaching and positively impact student learning. When teacher teams develop common short-term assessments, each teacher can identify how his or her students performed on each skill compared with other students. Individual teachers can call on their colleagues to help them reflect on areas of concern, and each teacher has access to the ideas, materials, strategies, and talents of the entire team.

Learning Intention: Leaders will develop an understanding of best practices related to short-term assessment within CTTs and will engage in a reflection about the current state of short-term assessment practices within their school.

Success Criteria: Teams will know they are successful when they…

• establish a foundational definition to understand short-term assessment

• have a shared understanding of best practices for short-term data collection and analysis within CTTs

• understand the current state of practice related to short-term assessment within CTTs

• have identified and prepared to address priorities related short-term assessment with their STT