Earlier this summer, Achieve launched the Student Assessment Inventory for School Districts, a new tool to help school district leaders to take stock of how many assessments are administered throughout a school year and for what purposes they are given.
Designed from a student perspective, the tool can be used by education leaders to make decisions about what amount of testing is appropriate and provide more transparency for parents about testing in schools. It supports a process by which districts evaluate current assessments; determine the minimum testing necessary to serve essential diagnostic, instructional, and accountability purposes; and work to ensure that every district-mandated test is useful and of high quality.
The toolkit that accompanies the assessment inventory includes a recorded webinar, power point, training materials, and CCSSO criteria for high-quality assessment.
The Student Assessment Inventory for School Districts and associated toolkit is available at http://www.achieve.org/assessmentinventory
