Standards and Assessment: The Core of Qualtiy Instruction

Standards provide learning targets for students and the result of assessments help make data-driven instructional decisions. In this anthology education experts address the following topics in the context of impacting student learning performance assessments frequent assessments in mathematics connecting science standards and assessments common formative assessments for English language learners standards and assessments contexts and applications assessments for literacy learning disciplinary literacy and deep understanding effective grading practices assessing the 21st century learner.