Designing an Assessment Plan That Reflects What Matters Most

Module 1: Getting Started with Assessment
Designing Your Microschool Assessment Approach
Module 2: The Purpose of Assessment
Rethinking Assessment: A Tool for Growth and Empowerment
Assessment as an Ongoing Practice
Module 3: Collecting Evidence
From Snapshots to Stories: Gathering Meaningful Evidence
Module 4: Artifacts Collected Through Project-Based Learning
Portfolio Evidence and the Student Success Framework
Module 5: Academic Skills
Two Kinds of Academic Outcomes
Assessment Tool 1: Rubrics
Module 6: Life Habits
Building Habits That Help Students Thrive
Assessment Tool 2: Checklists
Module 7: Purpose and Sense of Self
Reflecting on Purpose and Identity
Assessment Tool 3: Reflections
Module 8: Other Critical Outcomes
Academic Content Skills
Module 9: Helping Students Develop a Growth Mindset
Why Growth Mindset Matters
Module 10: What Comes Next?
Looking Ahead
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Designing Your Microschool Assessment Approach

Designing an Assessment Plan That Reflects What Matters Most Designing Your Microschool Assessment Approach

Laying the Groundwork

Over the past few weeks, you’ve laid the groundwork for a student-centered microschool that truly reflects the needs of your learners. You created student profiles to better understand who you’re serving, brainstormed outcomes that feel meaningful and relevant, and built a framework to help students thrive.

Now What?

Now it’s time to ask yourself: How will I collect meaningful data that helps me track progress toward the outcomes I have identified? And, how can I put students in the driver’s seat of their own assessment so they feel like a partner in their own education? 

 

This week is all about building an assessment strategy that supports student reflection and growth—across the outcomes you’ve prioritized for your microschool. 

By the end of this training, you will:

Develop an initial assessment plan for your microschool. For each outcome / outcome category in your microschool you’ll identify: 

 

  1. Evidence: What evidence will you use to determine what progress students are making and where they need more help? 
  2. Tools: What tools will you use to collect and evaluate that evidence?

We’ll share some tools from Rock by Rock as an example and you can decide whether or not you want to use our tools, modify them, or create your own. 

You won’t create every tool as part of this cohort, but our hope is that following this cohort, you have the knowledge you need to create the tools that work in your setting. That said, if you find it helpful to create the tools now, please do so.

Your Planning Tool

To help you map out your assessment approach, we’ve created a simple planning table you’ll complete gradually throughout this module.

Directions: Download the My Microschool Assessment Plan. At the top of the document, you’ll see an example we’ve filled out to show how this table might look using Rock by Rock’s assessment approach. 

  • Start by listing your outcomes or categories in the first column.
  • If you already have specific goals tied to those outcomes, go ahead and add them in the second column.
  • You’ll complete the remaining sections gradually as you move through this module.
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