Professional Development
For Curriculum Personnel and Teachers:
Classroom Assessment Using Proficiency Scales
Assessment Literacy:
Assessment Types
Assessment Literacy:
Creating Reliable and Valid Classroom
Assessments Aligned
to Proficiency Scales
Using Classroom
Assessment Data to
Inform Instruction
Customized
Assessment Topics
Custom Consulting
and Development
Led by Dr. Robert Marzano, the assessment team at Empower Learning provides assessment consulting and evaluation services tailored to meet your specific needs. We spend time understanding your needs and co-develop a scope of work to define the project parameters. Our assessment team will then deliver on that work, providing your system the peace of mind that your assessments effectively align with your competency-based goals.
Examples of Projects the Center
Team Can Provide
Evaluation of Existing Common/Benchmark Assessments:
Alignment of existing assessments to proficiency scales
Item validity analysis, feedback, revision
Classroom assessment
reliability calculation
How to set up a system-wide classroom assessment approach aligned to proficiency scales.
Analysis of the reliability and validity of school-wide and district-wide assessments (i.e. correlational studies. Correlating student scores on classroom assessments with their scores on large-scale, end-of-year and interim assessments).
Guided Implementation of the Marzano Growth Calculator
PD/Services
We bring decades of Standards-Based Grading experience to your community.
