The collection of assessment-related attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors that motivate teachers, administrators, elected officials, and students and their families to utilize assessments to raise student success and learning is known as assessment literacy.
By giving teachers the information and abilities they need to perform assessment in the classroom successfully, assessment literacy may be utilized to enhance educational practice. This entails knowing how to create and administer tests that are responsive as well as how to decipher and apply test findings to enhance student learning. Assessment literacy includes assessments that are based on routine classroom activities as well as standardized measuring and testing. It is critical that teachers score and analyze assessment results, anticipate the evidence of student learning that will be offered by assessment activities, and base critical judgments on these findings.
In addition, fairness and ethical obligations are factors in evaluation literacy. Teachers may strengthen their capacity to gather, analyze, and apply assessment data to support students in tracking and assessing their learning needs, creating attainable objectives, and using focused feedback to advance their learning by cultivating assessment literacy.
GOALS
Supporting the Assessment Literacy Criteria has two main objectives:
- Establish a set of criteria that outline the attitudes, information, and abilities that different stakeholders who are assessment literate must have and apply in order to optimize the positive effects of student assessments and minimize or completely eradicate the negative effects or repercussions of assessment.
- Create and execute resources and activities that may be utilized to improve the understanding and abilities of those who use assessments: educators, parents, and legislators. The ultimate objective of this endeavor is to develop a population that is more assessment literate and capable of utilizing student evaluations to enhance learning and performance.
The field’s understanding of assessment literacy and the function and goal of comprehensive, equitable, high-quality assessment systems will be built upon the assessment literacy standards for educators, administrators, legislators, and students and their families.
