What value is there in assessments taken during the pandemic? How can assessment design reflect more diverse groups of students? Read perspectives from WestEd’s assessment experts.
Molly Faulkner-Bond explores how the education community can help make assessment more inclusive, diverse, and responsive to students' lived experiences.
The new Formative Insights: Assessment for Learning website offers resources to support teachers and leaders in implementing formative assessment practices to empower all learners.
Rubrics for assessing student learning are designed and implemented differently depending on whether they are deficit- or strengths-based. Learn why a strengths-based approach is more effective.
The pandemic has significantly impacted assessment and accountability systems. Recently, WestEd's experts met to discuss lessons learned from the pandemic and implications for the future.
In this Q&A, Joanne Jensen, Director of Assessment Design and Development at WestEd, shares how states can help to close kindergarten readiness gaps by identifying children who need extra support.
WestEd is pleased to announce Dr. Marianne Perie is the agency’s new Director of Assessment Research and Innovation. In this role, she will significantly shape the agency’s psychometrics and assessment research, providing deep measurement expertise and drawing on her experience to improve educational equity through high-quality research.
REL West explores how data-driven cycles of prototyping and inquiry are useful tools teachers can use to assess student progress.
Learn how teams in Los Angeles County are collaborating to build teacher capacity to create and use performance assessment as part of the teaching and learning process.