Presentations from:

WERA Spring Conference "Making the Grade - Gathering and Reporting Evidence of Student Learning"

March 28-30, 2007

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Ken O’Connor Keynote: Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades

Rick Stiggins Keynote: The Role of Report Card Grades in Standards-driven Schools

Workshop 1 - How to Grade for Learning AM Session - PM Session

1.2 2006 WASL Reading Released Items, Grades 3-5

1.7 The Impact of Data-Driven Decision Making on Student Achievement at Chief Leschi Schools in Grades K-6

1.8 Research on Using Collections of Evidence for State Assessment Programs: A Model that Just Might Work

1.9 Implementing a K-6 Standards-Based Reporting System in a Large School District: Lessons Learned

2.1 Certificate of Academic Achievement Options: Current Status and What May be in Your Future

2.3 K-12 Classroom Practices for Using Student-Involved Assessment

2.4 Ensuring Students are "Making the Grade" Through Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning - Additional materials (zip file)

2.8 Assessing Your Effectiveness - Coaches and Mentors

2.9 Alternative Learning Environment (ALE) - Online Student Learning Tools to Make the Grade for Their COE and On-Time Graduation

3.1 What is this New Segmented Mathematics Course and Assessments?

3.2 OSPI Persuasive Writing for the High School Classroom - Additional Materials (zip file)

3.4 Making Middle School Meaningful: A Journey - Not a Destination

3.5 Don't You Wish there was a DIBELS for Math? Accompanying document

3.8 Can Assessments be Fair to All Students? Research on Differential Item Functioning and Bias/Sensitivity Reviews for WASL

3.9 Do Grades Prove Proficiency? Comparing Students' Mathematics GPA and WASL Scores

4.1 Stiggens Keynote Follow-up

4.3 Professional Learning Communities and Assessment for Learning

4.4 An Update on Computational Competency from the January Conference

4.8 The Curious Life of Local Reading Items - Story - Scoring Guide