California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
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California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
Balanced Assessment System
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is committed to ensuring that all students leave high school prepared for postsecondary success in college or a career. A balanced assessment system helps students reach this goal.
Summative assessments benchmarked to college and career readiness
California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
Common Core State Standards specify
K-12 expectations for college and career readiness
Teachers
and schools have information and tools they need to improve teaching
and learning
All students leave
high school college
and career
ready
California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
Instructional and professional learning resources about
the formative assessment
process to help
improve instruction
Interim assessments that are flexible, open, and used for actionable feedback
California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
The formative assessment process is key to a balanced assessment system. The Smarter Balanced Digital Library
supports educators with the four attributes of formative assessment: Clarify Intended Learning, Elicit Evidence, Interpret Evidence, and Act on Evidence. The Digital Library provides subject- and grade-specific resources that help educators apply the formative assessment process during daily instruction.
California Department of Education
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library
Access Peer-Reviewed Content
· More than 1,500 educators from 22 states with diverse areas of expertise are populating the library in advance of the launch.
· Resources in the library have passed multiple blind reviews against a rigorous set of quality criteria.
Benefit from Innovative, Comprehensive Modules
In addition to educator-contributed content, the library will contain interactive, multimedia modules:
· Subject- and grade-specific exemplar instructional modules that model the formative assessment process in the context of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
· Professional learning modules on assessment literacy designed to help educators deepen their understanding of the formative assessment process in daily instruction.
Collaborate with Others
The Digital Library helps educators find resources through the use of robust search and filtering features, including filters for each CCSS. Educators may then:
· Rate the resources they find.
· Share their firsthand experiences using the resources.
· Start a collaboration topic and pose questions to their colleagues.