PROGRAMS
Assessment for Good (AFG) is committed to creating asset-based formative assessments and interventions that are culturally affirming of Black and Latinx learners and honor each learner’s academic, emotional, and social development.
What We Believe
We are a community of researchers, educators, and developers who believe that if we can understand who learners are, at any given day or moment—including how safe they feel, their self-efficacy, their feelings of connectedness and belonging plus what they are learning—then we can create more supportive and successful learning experiences for and with them. We are more convinced than ever that the reimagination of formative assessment is the most powerful lever we can pull, and the AFG community has been working hard to build that system alongside learners, their caregivers, and their educators.
What is formative assessment?
Today, our system does not ensure all students will learn to read. Two thirds of children do not read at grade level, and this is not a new phenomenon. We research and create solutions to transform our system so that we are teaching the right stuff at the right time and in the right way. Our research is uncovering what we should be focusing on to create solutions and unearthing a hidden hurdle for many students is a key part of our work.
Why do we want to transform how learners experience assessment?
Within assessment we cannot assume that there is a common set of experiences students have, that they experience them the same way, and that students are going to reach a benchmark at about the same time as each other. It’s not effective for decisions to be made upon how far students are away from that normative path. At AFG, we want to create tools that allow us to understand that person’s path, because in reality we know there is no “norm.” We create tools that capture a student’s experience, and share that information back to the learner, their educator, or the family at the speed of teaching.
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Assessment for Good transforms educational assessments by creating asset-based, culturally relevant tools enhanced with technology.
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