Welcome to The Assessment Playbook

Selecting the "DOCUMENT" link above, you can access The Assessment Playbook. The vision of this Playbook is to highlight key ideas and deepen opportunities to learn more about the topics presented in the UDL assessment video series:

• Intro to Assessments

• Evaluating Assessments

• Grade Level K–2 Video

• Grade Level 3–5 Video

• Grade Level 6–8 Video

• Grade Level 9–12 Video

We hope this Playbook will support K–12 educators as they plan and implement assessments during the school year in order to inform the design of instruction. Effective design and implementation of assessments helps ensure that all students are able to grow and develop as learners—so they are empowered to build on their strengths and improve on areas of challenge. Inspiration for this video series and accompanying Playbook was developed as a way to better understand the gaps in learning that may have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welcome to The Assessment Playbook

Selecting the "DOCUMENT" link above, you can access The Assessment Playbook. The vision of this Playbook is to highlight key ideas and deepen opportunities to learn more about the topics presented in the UDL assessment video series:

• Intro to Assessments

• Evaluating Assessments

• Grade Level K–2 Video

• Grade Level 3–5 Video

• Grade Level 6–8 Video

• Grade Level 9–12 Video

We hope this Playbook will support K–12 educators as they plan and implement assessments during the school year in order to inform the design of instruction. Effective design and implementation of assessments helps ensure that all students are able to grow and develop as learners—so they are empowered to build on their strengths and improve on areas of challenge. Inspiration for this video series and accompanying Playbook was developed as a way to better understand the gaps in learning that may have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This fast paced and fun video provides useful recommendations for classroom teachers on how to design and evaluate assessments to best evaluate students' knowledge and skill. It covers the topics of:

• Using assessments to find out where students are and how they learn best
• Designing assessments to support learning and help students become more aware of their own learning needs
• Understanding "construct relevant" and "construct irrelevant" design elements of assessments
• Understanding and avoiding construct "irrelevant" design features of assessments that may create barriers
• Evaluating individual items of an assessment that may be problematic and getting in the way of understanding the student's knowledge

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This fast paced and fun video provides an overview and strategies for effective use of assessments for early elementary grade level teachers. As a follow-up to the Introduction to Assessments, this video reviews the three big questions from the context of a classroom teacher working with high school students (ages 14-18).

• How is the assessment linked to the learning goal?
• How does the assessment engage the learner?
• What barriers migh students experience?

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This fast paced and fun video provides an overview and strategies for effective use of assessments for early elementary grade level teachers. As a follow-up to the Introduction to Assessments, this video reviews the three big questions from the context of a classroom teacher working with middle school students (ages 11-14).

• How is the assessment linked to the learning goal?
• How does the assessment engage the learner?
• What barriers migh students experience?

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This fast paced and fun video provides an overview and strategies for effective use of assessments for early elementary grade level teachers. As a follow-up to the Introduction to Assessments, this video reviews the three big questions from the context of a classroom teacher working with upper grades of elementary students (ages 8-11).

• How is the assessment linked to the learning goal?
• How does the assessment engage the learner?
• What barriers migh students experience?

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This fast paced and fun video provides an overview and strategies for effective use of assessments for early elementary grade level teachers. As a follow-up to the Introduction to Assessments, this video reviews the three big questions from the context of a classroom teacher working with young students.

• How is the assessment linked to the learning goal?
• How does the assessment engage the learner?
• What barriers migh students experience?

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This fast paced and fun video provides an introduction to assessments for classroom teachers. It covers the topics of

• Types of Assessments
• Improving Assessments
• Challenges to Assessments

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As educators become familiar with UDL, they frequently begin by asking "How do I do this?" They need an adaptable process, one that allows them to reflect on their own practice. This resource focuses on integrating the UDL principles into best practice by illustrating UDL lesson planning as an adjustable step-by-step process for teaching all learners. The UDL lesson planning process engages educators in six steps: (1) defining clear, S.M.A.R.T. learning goals based on standards, (2) considering the classroom impact of learner variability, (3) determining appropriate, meaningful assessments, (4) infuse UDL into traditional teaching methods and select materials and media that add value, (5) teach and assess, and (6) refine learning through self-reflection. Applicable to all levels, lesson reflection questions and application exercises immediately put UDL into practice.