National, state and local standards are designed to enhance consistency and coherence for student learning. Even with the best intentions, such documents can still feel overwhelming and even sometimes confusing for teachers.
Marzano Research Laboratory can assist you in using such standards to clearly articulate expectations for all students at varied levels of proficiency. These proficiency scales allow teachers to thoroughly understand the knowledge, skills, products, and processes needed for students to be proficient on essential content, while differentiating for extensions and remediations as needed.
Classroom and/or local assessments can then be aligned to the proficiency scales to ensure the validity needed for quality assessment information. Marzano Research Laboratory has a team of specialists available to assist you with many standards and assessment-related issues:
Developing proficiency scales
- Writing and using formative assessments
- Developing assessment items or opportunities
- Developing common assessments
- Creating learning progressions
- Disaggregating data
- Understanding how accommodations and modifications relate to assessment
- Using assessment results to guide instruction (RtI)
- Revising grading practices for quality results
- Connecting assessment results to curriculum, instruction, interventions (RtI), school improvement, or staff development
- Understanding types and purposes of assessment
- Increasing student ownership of learning through assessment
- Using assessment results for school improvement
- Considering Balanced assessment
- Connecting large mid, and small scale assessments into a comprehensive assessment plan
- Developing and using summative assessments
national, statewide, district and school needs
- Independent consulting about assessment issues via videoconferencing
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