Proficiency-Based Assessment

With this user-friendly resource, K–12 teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments. Learn the essentials of proficiency-based assessment, investigate why this kind of assessment has a key relationship with teaching and learning, and explore evidence-based strategies for successful implementation.

Benefits

• Follow a curriculum team's journey through the process of learning about and implementing proficiency-based assessment.
• Discover how the phases in the proficiency-based assessment implementation process relate to each other and how each is important.
• Understand the causes of learning gaps.
• Study the commitments, unexpected combinations, insights, decisions, and assertions related to proficiency-based assessment.
• Examine the types of assessment that teachers need to use and fully grasp in order to create harmonious assessment environments.