Monroe Assessment Project

Developing quality assessment practices in the Finger Lakes Region of New York

LCI recently completed year two of a three year project supporting classroom teachers from a consortium of schools to build their understanding of, and skills in, quality formative assessment. 

Giselle Martin-Kniep and Jennifer Borgioli worked in collaboration with Jeanette Adams-Price from Monroe 1 BOCES and Lorena Stabins from Monroe 2 BOCES to design the program around the participants’ needs. They began the work by guiding participants’ learning about quality assessment practices, including using rubrics and checklists to engage students in the formative assessment process.

Participants applied the strategies they had learned about in their own classrooms between program sessions  with coaching support from Jeanette and Lorena. Giselle provided technical support to district administrators through a series of webinars during the year. She helped them understand how to best support their teachers as well as supporting their own formative assessment practices. 

Teacher participants came away from the program with a deepened understanding of assessment, and transform that knowledge into their everyday teaching practices. As one teacher wrote in the final reflection: “I had never realized before the power of formative assessment in helping students advance in both their learning and their self-efficacy.”

The video below shows scenes from the forum where teachers and administrators shared two years of work from this program.

 

Interested in learning more about LCI's Assessment work?  Read more, or flip through our program guide.