Washington State’s SAGE Project

(Science Assessment Grounded in Equity)

Designing Short Assessments &
Adapted Tasks

Tools for creating short assessments, Check & Connects, and tasks that were adapted for this project.

Resources for Relationship Building and Story Catching

Questions and activities that elicit learners’ interests, experiences, and identities and help build connections between learners and science content.

Resources for Relationship Building and Storycatching

Our crowdsourced and curated collection of questions and activities.

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No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.
~ Dr. James Comer

Check & Connect Assessment Guidance

Short lesson-level assessments for formative use that elicit students’ experience and 3D understandings.

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Check & Connect Assessment Guidance

Designing Check & Connect Assessments

Check & Connect Item Library

NSTA 2023 KC: Reimagining Exit Tickets

A working Google slide deck to support Check & Connect assessment design.

See examples and learner responses in our NSTA presentation deck.

Why the name ‘Check & Connect’?

Learners of participating Washington state educators were asked, “What do you think we should call these activities?”. While there were a variety of responses, there was also a pattern related to both ‘checking in’ and ‘making connections’. To value and honor their ideas, we call these types of short assessments Check & Connect.