Services

Professional Development Workshops

ACASE workshops are tailored specifically to the needs of your district, school, and your teachers. Ranging in time from half a day to two weeks in length, we provide continuing support over the school year as needed or desired.

Many teachers from previous workshops have gone forward with the work they began with us—some of this work can be seen in refinements to assessments posted on this website, other work will be incorporated after further testing by other teachers.

Workshops we have offered previously include:

  • Administering & Reliably Rating Performance Assessments
  • Using the AIS Information System to Conduct Action Research
  • Building Bridges from Standards to Classroom Practice
  • Building Learning Goals for Practical Planning, Evaluation, and Improvement of Instruction
  • Building Performance Assessments

What previous participants have said:

Design and Consulting

We develop practical systems that teachers and educational policy makers can use to create educational settings where all students can achieve their potential. Our special contribution is designing rigorous ways to see whether students are attaining high level educational goals. We believe that our approach to solving educational problems is both unique and needed. The following are some of the services we provide:

Materials and Systems Development

  • Developing practical and operational learning goals for educational programs
  • Developing performance assessment instruments for schools, school districts and state education agencies
  • Designing and constructing materials for assessment and instruction.

Services to Educational Agencies

  • Designing evaluations for educational programs
  • Conducting evaluations of educational programs
  • Developing performance assessments for state tests
  • Determining reliability of assessment instruments.

For more information please email Paul Zachos at paz@acase.org.

ACASE Director Paul Zachos works with students

For more information please email us at info@acase.org.