According to the National Center for Fair and Opening Testing, these seven principles are intended to help transform assessment systems and practice as part of wider school reform. The assessment system should support and be integrated with changes in instruction and curriculum that improve student learning. I believe that DeKalb County uses these principles and indicators to implement their assessment system. Principle one is the primary purpose of the assessment is to improve student learning. According to this principle, assessment systems tend to comprise three main kinds of assessment activities are: classroom assessments, examinations, and large-scale assessments. DeKalb county implements this principle with the usage of SLOs, MAPS, …show more content…
This principle requires the teachers, schools, districts, and states use assessment practices and methods which are consistent with learning goals and current knowledge of how students learn. Canby Lane Elementary uses this principle by providing the students with multiple opportunities which includes weekly assessment in each subject, math frameworks, and reading and math end of unit common assessment demonstrate their learning. All of these assessments are a part of the school non-negotiables. The teachers do not have any flexibility with these assessments. The suggestions I would make to the administration team at my school is to not micromanage and trust the teachers to teach and assess the students appropriately.
Principle three states that assessment systems are fair to all students. This principle is designed to minimize the impact of unfairness on the student’s performance. I believe that DeKalb County and Canby Lane Elementary have the student’s best intentions in mind utilizing their assessment practices. The only suggestion I have for improvement is to incorporate assessment practices that accommodate a variety of different student learning …show more content…
This principle confirms if the assessment systems are regularly reviewed and improved that the systems are educationally beneficial to all students. I am unsure if the Research and Grant Assessment team of DeKalb County has any responsibility for monitoring the assessment review progress on a regular basis. There were changes to the Georgia Milestones this school year, but I do not know if DeKalb county or GADOE made the improvements. Suggestions on improving implementation of this principle is for DeKalb county to develop an assessment team to review the district’s assessment system at all levels at the end of each school year and require school administrators to develop an assessment team of all local stakeholders to review the school’s assessment system before the start of