Throughout educational literature, we are inundated with messages about the power of assessment to do everything from developing learner agency, to improving the quality of teachers (Wiliams, 2016), to guiding…

A number of times, after sitting through a moderation session with a group of teachers, I’ve asked myself, “Did our rubric really measure what our students are capable of doing?…

Validity, Reliability, and Fairness As discussed in a previous post, assessment literate teachers – or assessment capable teachers as the PYP calls them – understand standards of assessment quality. The…

It is a well established truism, that our beliefs as teachers impact our practice. This idea was further reinforced in reading Gavin Brown’s article Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: implications for…

A few years ago I introduced teacher inquiry groups in my school. Teacher inquiry groups (TIGs) are collaborative inquiries conducted by teachers based on an area of practice or problem…

Now that I have identified what skills and knowledge we need to be able to make sense of assessment data, I began wondering about what data we actually have and…

As PYP teachers, assessment data has a pivotal role in our professional inquiries as a source of “evidence”. However, before we can begin using assessment data purposefully, we need to…

As one of my professional goals this year, I decided to use protocols with my teaching teams to help us analyse student data to improve instruction. So far I have…