Alaska | Alaska has begun work regarding Balanced Assessment Systems - this includes formative assessment for all content areas. |
Arkansas | We do not have a formal initiative but we are providing training and support for districts to embed the formative assessment process in instruction and to use data from other assessments for formative purposes. |
California | Awareness campaign. |
Delaware | State has always promoted good instructional practices in many different PD or grants (Math Coalition or MSP grants). Smarter Digital Library has excellent vetted resources for what Formative in the Classroom look like (all grades). |
Florida | The Mathematics Formative Assessment System (MFAS) is currently available on the CPALMS website to support grades K through Algebra and Geometry.
http://www.cpalms.org/Resource/mfas.aspx
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Hawaii | Teacher trainings on interim assessments
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Idaho | Offerings through the SBAC Digital Library |
Indiana | Formative assessment grant available to all schools for Grades K-10. Funding is allocated annually. |
Kansas | We are part of a consortium of states participating in an Enhanced Learning Maps grant for formative assessment. Also participate in FAST SCASS. |
Louisiana | EAGLE is an assessment item bank teachers, districts may use formatively. Department-created Guidebooks also offer assessments that may be used in the classroom, formatively. The state has developed diagnostic and interim tests (LEAP 360) as well. |
Maine | Funded by Title II, every content area is developing a network of leaders to support effective use of formative assessment. |
Mississippi | Through a regional services model, MDE offers teachers professional development opportunities on a variety of mathematics curriculum topics throughout the year. |
Nebraska | It has been proposed to be part of our assessment system starting in 2018. |
North Carolina | In pilot phase of classroom through-year assessments |
Oklahoma | The state is currently in the planning stages of developing a lesson study protocol in which school districts could use the TRU Mathematics Framework to better understand grade level content and create well-aligned formative assessments and tasks. |
Oregon | Oregon Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (OFAST) |
Pennsylvania | Assessment Builder / CDT |
Rhode Island | The RIDE website includes a series of formative assessment professional development PD modules that were developed with Race to the Top money. They are several years old and are general in nature, not specifically geared to mathematics. |
South Dakota | Digital Library resources and training
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Utah | SAGE Benchmark Modules and SAGE Interim Assessments |
Vermont | See Smarter Balanced Digital Library |
West Virginia | Khan Academy and the WV TREE (Online resource bank) |
Wisconsin | We're supporting work with a comprehensive and strategic system of assessments -
http://dpi.wi.gov/math/assessment and
dpi.wi.gov/strategic-assessment
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