Assessment Literacy

Progress Monitoring

Progress monitoring is a way for educators to regularly check students’ learning over time to see if instruction is working and to decide what to adjust next. Progress monitoring:

Focuses on specific learning goals
Uses repeated, brief checks during the school year
Helps teachers adapt instruction, provide support, and build on students’ strengths
Uses multiple sources of data to support fair, equitable, and culturally responsive decisions

The Progress Monitoring Guidance document is a new resource designed to support districts in creating a coherent assessment system. It provides a clear, research‑aligned framework for implementing equitable, instructionally useful progress‑monitoring systems that improve student outcomes.

Parent Assessment Literacy

ODE worked with partners at the University of Oregon at Behavioral Research & Teaching, and education and community partners, to develop parent assessment literacy training modules. The modules address five questions that research suggests parents are most interested in knowing, including:

1) How does ODE make sure that our statewide summative assessments are fair and accessible?

2) What assessments does my child take and what are the purposes for each?

3) How did my child do on the state assessments?

4) How can I support learning at home? and,

5) Where do I go if I have questions about assessment?

Each set of modules includes the following set of resources, which are available in both English and Spanish:

Key Concepts to read in advance of viewing the video to better understand the training video content
The relevant Training Video
A script of the dialogue that occurs in each video.

The modules were developed with a focus on the diverse representation of Oregon parents and families. We hope that you find these training modules useful and informative.