Outcomes-Driven Formative Assessment in Middle School: A Fireside Chat

Join us for this enlightening conversation as our Acadience^® Learning experts discuss how to implement formative assessment of content-area reading in the middle school environment and why that is important. Lessons learned from successful implementation of Acadience^® Reading assessments in K–6 will be shared. We will discuss how and why implementation of formative assessment may differ for middle school. A framework for decision making, called the Outcomes-Driven Model, also will be shared and its use in middle school will be illustrated.

Attendees will learn:

• Useful information about formative assessments of content-area reading skills for use in grades 7 and 8
• How the use of these formative assessments within a decision-making framework focused on improving outcomes
• The benefits of this approach and the structure of these assessments
• Why it is imperative to focus on students in middle school