Create Balanced Assessments

Going Deeper

Educational Leadership's Informative Assessment issue features articles with valuable insights into the "why" and "how" of formative assessments, including:

Chappuis, Stephen, and Chappuis, Jan. "The Best Value in Formative Assessment." Educational Leadership, December 2007/January 2008. Vol. 65, No. 4: pgs. 14-19.

Sternberg, Robert J. "Assessing What Matters." Educational Leadership, December 2007/Janaury 2008. Vol. 65, No. 4: pgs. 20-26.

These provocative resources make the case for different kinds of assessments in education:

Hersh, Richard D. "What Does College Teach?" The Atlantic Monthly, November 2005

Stiggins, Rick. "New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission." Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 86, No. 1, September 2004, pp. 22-27

Stiggins, Rick. "From Formative Assessment to Assessment FOR Learning: A Path to Success in Standards-Based Schools." Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, No. 04, December 2005, pp. 324-328