Assessment Institute

Ottawa, Ontario

This institute brings together leading assessment experts and practitioners to share the research and practical applications that are proven to dramatically increase student learning. Discover how to positively change the culture of your school by empowering staff to use best practices. Identify an array of strategies that will create a balanced assessment system.

Using best practices ensures that educators know which students need interventions and exactly what interventions are critical to improve learning. By collaboratively using data, teacher teams make decisions on the most appropriate strategies to differentiate instruction.

Focus your direction and return home with both the research and practical ideas to make your assessment system timely, precise, and effective in optimizing instruction.

Learning Outcomes

• Collect systematic data that supports student improvement.
• Implement equitable, defensible grading practices.
• Effectively communicate student progress to parents.
• Involve students in the assessment of their own learning.
• Assess 21^st century skills.
• Use learning models that promote student engagement.
• Collaboratively design and analyze quality common formative assessments.
• Design a balanced assessment system.
• Design homework that matters.
• Navigate conflict during the change process.
• Understand the changing purposes of assessment and grading.
• Develop assessment literacy for an entire school or district.
• Develop and assess student-friendly learning targets.
• Use assessment data to inform instruction.