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Students as assessors, and navigating testing: self-assessment, portfolios, test prep, and anxiety.

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Student Self-Assessment
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

When students can judge their own work against clear criteria and set a next goal, they take ownership of their learning.

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Reducing Test Anxiety
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Some students know the material but freeze on assessments, their anxiety crowds out what they know.

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Portfolios & Student-Led Conferences
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

When students curate a portfolio of their work and lead the conversation about their own learning, assessment becomes something they own rather than something done to them.

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Assessment Literacy
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Not all assessment is for the same purpose.

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Making Sense of Test Data
15 / 45 min or half-day · Coaches

Standardized and benchmark test reports arrive full of scores, percentiles, growth measures, proficiency bands, and it is easy to misread them or ignore them.

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Effective Test Preparation
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

High-stakes tests are a reality, but preparing students for them does not have to mean narrowing the curriculum to endless drills.

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Assessment-Capable Learners
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

The most powerful assessment happens when students can answer three questions themselves: Where am I going? Where am I now? and How do I close the gap? Developing assessment-capable learners puts students in the driver's seat of their own progress.

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Choice in Demonstrating Learning
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

There is usually more than one way for a student to show they have learned something.

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Assessment & Motivation
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

How you assess shapes what students care about, and whether they chase grades or chase learning.

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Dynamic Assessment
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Most assessment measures what a student can do alone, right now.

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Assessment Transparency
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

When students do not know what will be assessed, why, or what good work looks like, assessment feels like a mystery or a trap, and anxiety and guesswork replace learning.

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