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Performance Matters and Assessment Services

Proven Practices assessment workshops support the development of a common assessment literacy across all stakeholders that is rooted in best practices of assessment. Together with our assessment development academies and data literacy offerings, Proven Practices offers districts a complete solution to the process of creating and implementing an effective program of assessment that aligns with instructional and strategic goals

Expand the titles below to learn more about the academies, courses and workshops offered by Proven Practices.  

Description about the programs

  • The Proven Practices assessment literacy workshops provide professional learning to create strong foundations of assessment know-how across all areas of assessment creation. Each workshop targets a granular component of assessment literacy to help teachers, specialists, building leaders, and district administrators build capacity for understanding how assessment practices can influence the instructional program. 

Courses Tied to Topics

  • Fundamentals of Instructional Assessment Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Strategies for Formative Assessment Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Targeting Standards for Assessment Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Test and Item Review Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Cross-Curricular Assessment Workshop 
  • Comprehensive Assessment Literacy Workshop: Classroom or District 

District Highlight/Example

  • Williamson, TN
  • Polk County, FL

Description about the programs

  • Our assessment development workshops and academies guide districts at the classroom or district levels through the process of creating reliable assessment items and tests. In addition, assessment development academies help schools and districts create models of assessment that capture the essential data required to make meaningful decisions that inform teacher practice and other broad decisions.

Courses Tied to Topics

  • Fundamentals of Quality Item Writing Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Instructional Rubric Development Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Performance Task Development Workshop 
  • Fundamentals of Observational Assessment in CTE, Credentialing, & Other Programs Workshop 
  • Developing a Short-Cycle Instructional Assessment Program Academy 
  • Comprehensive Performance Assessment Development Academy 
  • Developing Comprehensive Assessment Academy 

District Highlight/Example

  • Macomb, MI 

Description about the programs

  • Assessment data is only meaningful when it can be turned into a response that creates an action. In our data literacy offerings, Proven Practices helps participants create a sense of understanding that results in confidence to make effective instructional decisions. At the district level our academy offering can help to support the development of data evaluation models to guide classroom- and school-based conversations.  

Courses Tied to Topics

  • Fundamentals of Using Data to Make Instructional Decisions Workshop 
  • Using Student Performance Data for Instructional Decision-Making Academy  

District Highlight/Example

  • CTECS, CT 

Description about the programs

  • For Performance Matters customers, planning a districtwide implementation of Performance Matters can seem overwhelming. Our Collaborative Practice Academy uses examples and models developed across districts of all sizes and goals to create an implementation model fitted to your needs and initiatives.

Courses Tied to Topics

  • Collaborative Practice Academy 

District Highlight/Example

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