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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.
Three teachers offer insights about formative assessment, ecosystems for learning, student and teacher agency, and the power of community.
WestEd’s Susan Villani reflects on the most powerful strategies administrators have mastered to help formative assessment thrive in the classroom.
Explore WestEd’s research, services, and resources designed to help educators rapidly improve teaching and systemic support for English learners.
WestEd is highlighting everything it takes — from cultivating leadership talent to tapping federal funding opportunities — to create school improvement.
Visit the Raising the Bar website to access research-based tools, resources, and services designed to help teachers transition to college- and career-ready standards.
In this book excerpt, authors Heidi Andrade and WestEd's Margaret Heritage discuss the three key principles for effective implementation of formative assessment.
WestEd’s Deb Sigman is the recipient of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Educational Research Association (CERA). The award honors her more than 40 years of leadership and service to California's K-12 students.
