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Assessment for Good (AFG) is committed to creating asset-based formative assessments and interventions that honor each learner’s unique process for learning, growth, and development.
What We Believe
One of the biggest tools an educator can have is an understanding of every learner’s maximum potential. We are a community of researchers, educators, and developers who believe that assessments that uncover students’ strengths can provide meaningful insights about the skills they use to power their learning.
With a focus on the important transition period from ages 8-13, AFG aims to transform assessment so that it delivers accurate, meaningful data that ignites instruction and fosters a more student-centered experience – at the speed of teaching and learning.
What is formative assessment?
Formative assessment is a process used during teaching and learning that reveals what a student knows and the helpful processes that contribute to that learning journey.
Learners and educators actively partner to uncover and respond to the learner’s assets and new areas of discovery that support their growth and potential.
*Adapted from NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association) and FAST SCASS (Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (FAST) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS))
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 aims to transform assessment to deliver accurate, meaningful data that ignites instruction and fosters a more student-centered experience – at the speed of teaching and learning.
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