The AERA Classroom Assessment SIG and Division C: Learning and Instruction are co-sponsoring an online panel discussion: Integrating Teaching, Learning and Assessment to Support Student Success on Friday, January 23, 2026 from 3-4:30 Eastern. Panelists include Drs. Caroline Wylie (Center for Assessment), Bryan Drost (North Central Education Service District), Susan Nolan (University of Washington), and Cartlon Fong (Texas State University). To register, click here.
The NCME Classroom Assessment Committee and AERA Classroom Assessment SIG are co-sponsoring a webinar series: Communicating Classroom Assessment for All. Each session features leaders in classroom assessment practice, policy, and testing. The series is focused on how communication, at multiple levels of educational systems, can contribute to robust classroom assessment enactment purposed to enhance student learning, and the challenges with communicating well across systems.
Part 1: Teachers as Assessment Leaders: Communicating Classroom Assessment with Students, Families, and Colleagues: Monday, January 19, 2026, 12-1:00pm Eastern, Featuring Tara Crewe, Denver Public Schools (Register here)
Part 2: From the Classroom to the Capitol: Communicating Classroom Assessment in District, State, and Federal Policy: Thursday. February 12, 2026, 12-1:00pm Eastern, Featuring Dr. Zach Warner, New York State Education Department (Register here)
Part 3: Aligning Purpose: Can Test Results Inform Teacher Practice and Classroom-level Decisions? Thursday, March 19, 2026, 12-1:00pm Eastern, Featuring Dr. Kristen Huff, Curriculum Associates (Register here)
A Resource to Improve Classroom Assessment for Student Success: Research, Practice, Policy, and the Public is intended to illuminate ways we can engage with classroom assessment research and research-informed work and communication across a variety of mediums, modalities, and audiences. Embedded within the resource is a call to connect with one another so we can better coordinate our individual and collective leadership and better support one another.
Consider nominating yourself for the Distinguished Paper Award or the Early Scholar Award! The submission deadline for is Friday, January 10, 2025. We are also seeking members for the review committees for each award. If you are interested in serving in this role, please send a curriculum vitae and/or link to a professional profile webpage to the SIG’s Awards Assistant Chair, Lance Piantaggini (lpiantaggini@umass.edu) for the Distinguished Paper Award or Yuhan Xiong (xiongyh0809@gmail.com) for the Emerging Scholar Award.
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