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Montgomery Township School District

 Our vision is that assessment will be used to enhance student learning and motivation.

Goals: 
  1. Establish a clear vision for school-wide data use- make data part of the cycle of ongoing instructional improvement.
  2. Provide supports that foster a data-driven culture within the schools.
  3.  Develop and maintain a district-wide data system to transform educational data into actionable information.
  4. Design assessment-centered professional learning programs to increase the assessment literacy of all staff.
  5. Establish policy and regulation to provide assessment guidance and accountability.
  6. Design, Review, Validation, and Administration of Common Assessments.
  7. Teach students to examine their own data and set their own learning goals.
  8. Enhance assessment communication among all stakeholders.

Recommended Reading

  • Ahead of the Curve

    by Larry Ainsworth et al
    Ahead of the Curve provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of assessment from a classroom, system, and leadership standpoint and examines the many perspectives of effective assessment design and implementation. The distinguished contributors to this volume support the premise that the fundamental purpose of assessment is not to rate, rank, and sort students, but rather to provide meaningful feedback that leads to improved performance. The authors believe that assessment is most productive when its purpose is for learning rather than for simply measuring it.
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  • Developing Standards-Based Report Cards

    by Thomas R. Guskey, Jane M. Bailey
    Providing a clear framework, this volume helps school leaders align assessment and reporting practices with standards-based education and develop more detailed reports of children’s learning and progress.
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  • How to Grade for Learning, K-12

    by Ken O'Connor
    This new edition of the bestseller demonstrates how to improve grading practices by linking grades with standards and establishing policies that better reflect student achievement.
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  • Transforming Classroom Grading

    by Robert J. Marzano
    Grading can be an invaluable tool for pinpointing strengths and weaknesses in students' understanding, provide a shared language for discussing learning, and help improve student performance over time. Unfortunately, current practices in classroom grading, such as the use of overall letter grades or percentage scores, are not amenable to this type of specific feedback. In fact, they do little more than label learning at periodic intervals. The antiquated grading system in use today has little or no research to support its continuation and is highly ineffective.

    Transforming Classroom Grading presents viable alternatives. It is about designing grading systems that are both precise and efficient. Robert Marzano provides educators with a thorough grounding in grading research and theory. After clarifying the basic purposes of grades, he discusses what should be included in them, how to use a rubric-based approach to assessment and reporting, how to compute final topic scores and final grades, and how technology can streamline the grading process. He also addresses seven types of assessment, which, when coordinated, can provide a comprehensive view of student understanding and skill. Finally, he suggests alternatives to report cards with overall grades and ways to phase in their use.


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  • Understanding School Assessment

    by Jan Chappuis
    Understanding School Assessment will help parents and community members understand the important role classroom assessment plays in school improvement and student achievement. It explains in clear terms what a healthy, balanced assessment environment looks like in schools and classrooms and what you need to know about the wide variety of assessment information coming home today. This book will help you work knowledgeably with teachers, schools, districts, other parents, and community members to create the best educational environment possible for your child and the children in your community
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