NGSS District Assessment Toolkit

This Toolkit is a sustained and supported professional learning experience designed to shift the culture of assessment to one that is more caring. The tools and processes presented here are the result of a pilot with educators from Colorado and Connecticut. The six modules are designed for flexible entry points and pathways to support district teams on a journey to develop more equitable 3D assessment systems with learners at the center.

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Washington State’s SAGE Project

The SAGE Project is the culmination of a multi-year project with multiple collaborators to establish and enact a vision for Science Assessment Grounded in Equity. While the tools and resources were designed using OpenSciEd as an instructional materials model, they can be adapted for other materials as well. We invite you to explore all of the resources: Getting Started, Designing Short Assessments & Adapted Tasks, Using Assessments to Improve Teaching & Learning, and Changing Systems

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Criteria for an Equitable Grading System

The criteria in this document distinguish between criteria for grades as a product and criteria for grading as a process. Grades are the result of the grading process and in order to have an equitable system, both the process of grading and the grades that are the result of that process must change.

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