Classroom Assessment Committee

UPCOMING

• Plan to attend the 5th NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment in person this year on September 19-20, 2024 at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL. The conference theme is “Reclaiming the Promise of Balanced Assessment Systems: Achieving Deeper Learning at Scale for Both Students and Adults.”

HISTORY

In 2016, the NCME President Mark Wilson initiated a task force focused on classroom assessment. This task force was initially led by Kristen Huff (Curriculum Associates) and Dale Whittington (Shaker Heights City School District).

SELECTED ACTIVITIES

Members of this committee and friends of the committee have voluntarily given their time to engage in the following work in the past years: 

1. Initiated multiple, high-quality, classroom assessment conferences and webinars.

2. Provided resources for teachers:

1. Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers is a resource curated by Heidi Andrade and Susan Brookhart that provides teachers with formative assessment materials that can be plugged into any curriculum and instruction.

2. 2020 and 2022 NCME pre-conference professional development with local educators.

3. Celebrated permanent NCME Committee in 2020 with the leadership of co-chairs Alison Bailey (University of California, Los Angeles) and Caroline Wylie (Center for Assessment; ETS).

4. Supported the 2020 publication of the edited volume “Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement,” edited by Susan Brookhart and James McMillan.

5. Supported special issues in the 2019 Journal of Educational Measurement special issue on classroom assessment, volume 56, issue 4, which published selected papers from the first NCME Classroom Assessment conference

• OTHER CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT RESOURCES:

• Module 20: Classroom Assessment Standards, https://ncme.elevate.commpartners.com/products/digital-module-20-classroom-assessment-standards

• Module 22: Supporting Decisions with Assessment, https://ncme.elevate.commpartners.com/products/digital-module-22-supporting-decisions-with-assessment

• Module 24: Assessment Literacy, https://ncme.elevate.commpartners.com/products/digital-module-24-assessment-literacy

• Classroom Assessment Standards

• The Importance of Classroom Assessment

Quick Links

• Classroom Assessment Committee
• Committee Mission and Objectives
• Fall 2023 Webinar: Equity and Assessment for Learning
• Upcoming Classroom Assessment Conference
• Past Classroom Assessment Conferences
• The Importance of Classroom Assessment
• Functions of Summative Assessment
• Relating to the Curriculum
• Role of Learning Progressions
• Classroom Assessment Standards
• Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers (FACT)

Members:

Dustin Van Orman, Co-Chair
Heidi Andrade, Co-Chair
Melissa Spadin, Member
Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica, Member
Duy Pham, Member
Michael Holden, Student Member
Deborah Fabiyi, Student Member
Erin Furtak, Member
Bryan Drost, Member
Derek Briggs, Member
Yoav Bergner, Member