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Colorado Assessment Literacy Program
Colorado Assessment Literacy Program
The Colorado Assessment Literacy Program offers tools and resources aimed at supporting educators’ efforts to expand their understanding of the varied purposes and uses of assessment information and guiding instruction to improve student engagement and learning. The program includes resources that help to build capacity across districts, align and develop sustainable, local assessment systems. Local assessment systems include classroom, district, and state assessments as well as formative assessment practices.
In addition, the program helps educators design, implement and use assessments effectively to guide and support instruction, and make important programmatic and resource decisions that benefit all students. Educators who complete the program have a better understanding of how to strategically use assessment information to improve instructional outcomes for all students.
Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Modules
The Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Modules are currently under revision and temporarily unavailable. These free online modules are being updated to reflect current research, state priorities, and educator feedback, with the goal of strengthening their relevance and impact for classroom practice.
We look forward to re-releasing the updated modules in a future phase of the Assessment Literacy Program. Please check back soon for updates.
Meaningful Classroom Assessments Learning Hub
Classroom assessment plays a critical role in shaping students’ learning experiences. When thoughtfully designed and used, assessment helps educators understand student thinking, supports meaningful feedback, and informs instructional decisions. These resources are intended to support teachers, school leaders, and district leaders in strengthening classroom assessment practices that promote learning, engagement, and equity. They are designed to be flexible and can be used in a variety of ways—educators may explore individual tools, use them collaboratively in PLCs, or work through the self-guided workshop with colleagues.
All learning hub resources can be accessed in one place by clicking here.
Performance Assessment
High quality performance assessments are generally hands-on and/or involve real-world scenarios and have the capacity to measure a student's ability to apply and transfer to new situations both relevant content knowledge and essential skills. The use of performance assessment provides all students the opportunity to demonstrate deep content knowledge through the application of essential skills in a non-traditional assessment format that has the ability to more effectively showcase student talent.
Colorado Student-Centered Science Assessment Learning Series & Toolkit
The Colorado Student-Centered Science Assessment Learning Series and Toolkit is a sustained and supported professional learning experience designed to shift the culture of assessment to one where students experience assessment as an important part of learning that is positive, confidence-building, and empowering and teachers have access to assessments that are designed to reveal pivotal information about student sensemaking.
Capstone Assessment
A Capstone Assessment is a multifaceted body of work that is district determined and serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students. Capstone assessments could include a portfolio of the student’s best work - curriculum or research-based; feature a set of experiments organized around a central problem; and/or showcase a community service project or learning activity.
Colorado Assessment Review Tool
The Colorado Assessment Review Tool guides district and school leaders and educators as they evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their local assessments. It is designed to help users determine how well assessments align with the Colorado Academic Standards, whether they include clear scoring criteria, if they adhere to principles of fairness and minimize bias, and how they contribute to enhancing students' learning opportunities.