This workshop guides teachers in strengthening their assessment practices by integrating both formative and performance-based assessments into daily instruction. Participants first reflect on their current assessment approaches while considering the importance of validity and reliability. They then explore different types of formative and performance-based assessments and learn how to align them with a backwards design approach to lesson planning. The session concludes with practical strategies for designing effective rubrics that ensure consistency and fairness when scoring performance tasks.

• Overreliance on summative assessments that do not fully inform daily instruction.
  
  
• Inconsistent or unreliable assessment practices that limit fairness and accuracy in measuring student learning.
  
  
• Lack of alignment between instructional goals, lesson design, and assessment methods.

1. Balancing Assessment Practices
   Participants will learn how to integrate formative and performance-based assessments into classroom practice, ensuring they complement one another and provide a more complete picture of student learning.
   
   
2. Connecting Assessments to Backwards Design
   Educators will strengthen their ability to align assessments with instructional goals and lesson planning through a backwards design framework, ensuring that assessments drive purposeful instruction.
   
   
3. Designing Effective Rubrics
   Participants will gain hands-on experience creating rubrics that are valid, reliable, and fair, providing clear criteria for success while fostering consistent feedback and student growth.