The Classroom Assessment Podcast

Episode 7: Using assessments to promote social and emotional learning

Early Career Scholar Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by Drs. Cynthia Sistek and Dee Fabry from National University and Hasmik Movsisyan, a graduate student and educator. The group discusses the importance of using student-centered assessments, particularly formative assessments, to promote students' social and emotional learning.

Episode 6: Supporting Educators in Enacting Formative Assessment

SIG member Michael Holden is joined by Martha Koch, PhD and teacher Tracey Tinley, collaborators and members of the Canadian Assessment for Learning Network. They share how they support educators in enacting formative assessment, drawing on their work with K-12 teachers, preservice teachers, and other assessment leaders in different spaces.

Episode 5: Building and sustaining a district-university partnership for classroom assessment

Early career scholar Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by Erin Furtak, PhD and her collaborators Clarissa Deverel-Rico, PhD, Ryann Patrick-Stuart, and Samantha Duwe. The group shares how they began their work together many years ago, their current collaborations, the challenges and joys of a changing assessment culture in a school district, and their plans for the future.

Episode 4: Formative Assessment and Emergent Bilinguals’ Mathematician Explanations: Informing Teacher Practice

Early career scholar Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by Suzanne Abdelrahim, Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Rachel Restani, and Valeria Zunino-Edelsberg. to discuss their collaboration with math teachers of emergent bilinguals in a large California school district. The conversation focuses on engaging emergent bilingual students in talking about math, the importance of encouraging translanguaging in the classroom, and the essential role the math teachers who participate in the study play in their work.

Episode 3: Formative Assessment in the Arts

Early career scholar Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by professor Heidi Andrade (EdD) and teacher Edwin Brathwaite, who collaborated through Arts Assessment for Learning, a partnership between the NYC Department of Education's Office of Special Projects and ArtsConnection. The conversation focuses on formative assessment in the arts. The trio also discusses how formative assessment supports Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and how it facilitates a common language between teachers and students.

Episode 2: Subject-Specific Formative Assessment

Graduate Student Representative Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by Comfort Ateh, Ph.D., and Aaron Wyngowski, a middle-school social studies teacher who collaborated with Dr. Ateh on a study of formative assessment and the Common Core State Standards. The two discuss their work on subject-specific formative assessment. Mr. Wyngowski also shares his experiences with project-based learning in social studies classrooms and Dr. Ateh calls for more research into equitable formative assessment practices.

Episode 1: Formative Assessment and Project ExCEL

Graduate Student Representative Erin Riley-Lepo is joined by Alison L. Bailey, Ed.D., as well as Christine Butler and Heather Brown, two elementary school teachers who collaborate with Dr. Bailey. The group shares their work on Project ExCEL, an OELA/USDoE funded project. The conversation is focused on formative assessment as an important part of equitable assessment practices for English Language Learners.