Assessments that improve the speed and quality of learning—fully updated for teacher teams!

In this expanded, all-new edition, author Larry Ainsworth provides a system of intentionally aligned components (standards, instruction, assessments, and data analysis) that all work together to improve student learning. Readers will learn to:

• Build the “highway” to aligned assessments


• Decide the learning intentions and student success criteria for a unit of study


• Evaluate and revise assessment questions for quality


• Plan the learning progressions for students to attain the learning intentions


• Create quick progress checks to coincide with the learning progressions


• Use assessment results as feedback to adjust instruction and student learning strategies