Phase 1 2012, of the work of the
Content Collaboratives brought together
Colorado educators, and content and
assessment experts to review existing
assessments in all academic content
areas. The Content Collaboratives
members utilized an
Assessment Review Tool which is
designed to help Colorado educators rate
an assessment’s potential for measuring
student learning outcomes aligned to the
Colorado Academic Standards. This tool
helps measure the extent to which an
assessment does the following:
- Aligns to the Colorado Academic
Standards
- Includes rigorous scoring
criteria
- Is fair and unbiased
- Provides opportunities for
learning
Access to the Assessment Review Tool
along with helpful glossaries, depth of
knowledge guidance, inventories of
assessments reviewed and reports
outlining assessment gaps that still
exist can be found in the CDE Resource
Bank at
http://www.coloradoplc.org/assessment.
Assessments used in measuring student learning outcomes have been
researched, reviewed, and are being set
up for a trial that will determine their
functionality in an educator evaluation
context. These “already created”
quizzes, pre-post tests, performance
events, tasks, tests, or other “term”
measures of academic standards have been
recommended or partially recommended by
the Content Collaboratives members in
Career and Technical Education,
Comprehensive Health, Dance, Drama &
Theatre Arts, Mathematics, Music,
Physical Education, Reading, Writing &
Communicating, Science, Social Studies,
Visual Arts, and World Languages. The
reviewed assessments can be found in the
CDE Resource Bank.
