The very best starting place, Rick contends, is for teachers and local school leaders to engage in a high-quality professional development program in formative classroom assessment. He urges them to become assessment literate in those terms.
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Dr. Rick Stiggins was the founder of ATI and the pioneer of the Formative Assessment Method, a forward thinking means of providing students with meaningful feedback on their academic performance that encourages positive growth.
Rick: I have been trying to reach you. We need your assistance in Nebraska in order to get back to the level of assessment literacy that you were instrumental in helping us build. We have a group of post-secondary professors who find that assessment literacy among superintendents is almost non-existent.
Could we schedule a zoom call with you to talk about what we need to do and how you might be involved in helping us.
Doug Christensen, Phd, Emeritus Commissioner of Education, Professor of Leadership, Doane University.