K12 Assessment Strategies

Leverage Your Assessment Ecosystem

Spending on formative assessments has quadrupled in the last twenty years, with students spending up to 100 hours a year on standardized tests. Despite this investment of money and time, educators aren’t seeing strong improvements in student performance. ANet helps you evaluate your approach to find the assessments that best serve your students and educators.

Align Your Assessments! Frequently Asked Questions

Effective Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategy

Our work is grounded in equity, helping schools and districts make data-driven, standards-aligned decisions to improve instruction and outcomes. Purposeful, actionable assessments combined with an equitable use of data to meet your students’ unique needs result in improved student learning.

Analyze Assessments

Together, we evaluate the number of assessments your students currently experience and the purpose of each assessment. And, if you feel like you’re missing an actionable interim assessment, ANet can provide you with our instructional tool to meet your needs.

Engage Stakeholders

Our team supports district leaders in every step of the district-wide change management process, from developing cross-functional teams to engaging with key stakeholders in decision-making.

Implementing Strategy

We help district leaders by providing targeted development and professional learning, and setting goals for meaningful assessment and use of data that helps every student get what they need to succeed.

Why Traditional Assessments Fall Short

Why Develop an Assessment Strategy?

Many assessments: 1) are often designed to predict where students will end up versus interrupt learning that is off course; 2) are not transparent about the design of test items and limit the ability to dig into student misconceptions directly; 3) don’t do a good job disaggregating data for students with unique needs.
Getting useful data on what students need to make progress is a common problem schools face today. ANet helps you ensure that each assessment you administer is purposeful and actionable.

Update Your Assessment Strategy! View our Frequently Asked Questions

Data-Driven Student Testing Plan

Cohesive and Clear Assessment Strategies

With ANet’s partnership, school leaders successfully developed comprehensive assessment strategies. They reported feeling extraordinary clarity about district priorities, were supportive of the district vision, and felt confident in the use of data. Explore our results with the Madison, WI, school district after ANet partnership.

Agree that the district had clearly-stated instructional priorities

Before an ANet partnership, 56% of school leaders agreed the district had clearly stated instructional priorities.

Support the district's vision for the role of assessments

Before an ANet partnership, 44% of school leaders supported the district's vision for the role assessments should play, increasing by 53%.

Support the district's vision for use of data

67% of school leaders supported the district's vision for the use of data in decision making before an ANet partnership.

Build a Purposeful Student Testing Strategy

Explore a Partnership

We align best practices with your practices. We’re here to support what you already do well and improve what you want to do better. And we embrace your state’s requirements to ensure that our work helps you hit your marks and meet standards—and exceed them.