ERIC Number: ED600645
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Oct
Pages: 12
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Virginia's Student-Led Assessment Networked Improvement Community: Coming Together for Systems Change. Field Facing Memo #4
Stosich, Elizabeth Leisy; Jaquith, Ann
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
This memo, which is the fourth in the series, describes how 11 Virginia school divisions have come together to form Virginia's Student-Led Assessment Networked Improvement Community. This Networked Improvement Community (NIC) is focused on increasing the use of student-led assessment practices, including capstone projects, to increase students' agency and ownership of their learning and assessment experiences. The work of this NIC is supported by local- and state-level efforts to reimagine assessment in ways that shift the balance from a heavy focus on standardized assessments to one that prioritizes student-centered learning. The NIC's use of improvement science practices encouraged shared goal setting, progress monitoring, and iterative cycles that supported learning and refinement of the group's ideas for improving student-centered learning. This collective effort to reimagine assessment fostered sustained improvements in the midst of leadership churn. [To read the third memo in the series, "Developing a School Culture of Meaningful Feedback Deepens Everyone's Learning," see ED600643.]
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Student Evaluation, Student Centered Learning, Goal Orientation, Progress Monitoring, Educational Change, School Districts
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Barnum Center 505 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305. Tel: 650-725-8600; Fax: 650-736-1682; e-mail: scope@stanford.edu; Web site: http://edpolicy.stanford.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: University of Kentucky, Center for Innovation in Education (CIE)
Authoring Institution: Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE); Social Policy Research Associates (SPR); Assessment for Learning Project (ALP)
Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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