{"id":1403,"date":"2015-02-03T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2015-12-11T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:19:49","slug":"formative-assessments-take-educators-beyond-traditional-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/formative-assessments-take-educators-beyond-traditional-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Formative Assessments Take Educators Beyond Traditional Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Innovative Program Targets New Ways of Gauging Student Success<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>Maryland educators will learn the latest methods of gauging student progress during \u201cA Formative Assessment Roadtrip,\u201d a statewide conference set for Feb. 5.\u00a0 The one-day conference is drawing teachers and administrators from across the state to learn different methods of assessment, all aimed at improving achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Formative Assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides immediate feedback.\u00a0 Under Formative Assessment, teachers can adjust instructional techniques as necessary to strengthen the learning process.<\/p>\n<p>State Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery will kick off the conference with opening remarks.\u00a0 Margaret Heritage, Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, will keynote the conference. Her current work at CRESST focuses on data use for school improvement, including formative assessment, and is published widely on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery<br \/>\nMargaret Heritage, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards,<br \/>\nand Student Testing<br \/>\nEducators from Maryland\u2019s local school systems<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0A Formative Assessment Roadtrip: Integrating New Strategies for the Classroom<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0\u00a09 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thursday, February 5<\/strong><br \/>\n(Note: Dr. Lowery will address the meeting at 9:30 a.m.; Dr. Heritage\u2019s keynote will \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0begin at 10:20 a.m.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong>:\u00a0Union Ballroom<br \/>\nUMBC<br \/>\n1000 Hilltop Circle<br \/>\nHalethorpe, Maryland 21227<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative Program Targets New Ways of Gauging Student Success<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nMaryland educators will learn the latest methods of gauging student <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/formative-assessments-take-educators-beyond-traditional-tests\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}