Assessment+-+Principles

=**Principles of Assessment**=

//Assessments should. . .//


 * provide __meaningful__ opportunities for students to showcase what they __can do__ with the target language for authentic audiences and real life purposes


 * offer ongoing, just-in-time, useful feedback about what to do next
 * Students - Feedback that identifies next steps for practice to improve performance
 * Teachers - Feedback that guides next steps for instruction
 * Parents - Feedback that supports effective decision-making (about enrollment, how to guide practice at home, student growth, etc.)
 * Administrators - Feedback that guides curriculum development, program development, policy implementation, and funding

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 * consist of multiple sources of information, collected at different points in the learning process
 * empower students to take personal responsibility and accountability for their own learning (including record-keeping and communication)


 * improve performance through learning (as opposed to evaluation)


 * be based on clear targets (enduring understandings, reasoning and problem-solving, performance skills and processes, quality products, feelings and attitudes), focused purposes, proper methods, sound sampling, and accurate collection and interpretation of data


 * offer a clear vision of achievement expectations (i.e., they should be rigorous, aligned with national and state standards, aligned with curricular objectives, published, and should highlight what is important for students to be able to do)


 * test what was taught in the way it was taught

//Adapted from belief statements contributed by participants in the [|Mentoring, Leadership, & Change 2003 Summer Institute] held at the [|National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center] at Iowa State University.//

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