Student Learning Objectives (SLO)

This Georgia Department of Education document answers common questions, such as how students are assigned to teachers for an SLO in a coteaching situation and how to know if SLO assessments are rigorous.

This guidance document from the Georgia Department of Education includes questions to help determine whether commercially developed assessments are appropriate for SLOs.

The Georgia Department of Education created guidance for setting SLOs in unique circumstances or nontraditional settings. Some of the guidance includes business rules covering the percentage of time students must be enrolled in order to be included in the SLO, as well as the number of students required to create an SLO.

The Arizona Department of Education created templates to assist teachers in writing their SLOs. These templates include one per step in the SLO cycle. One template also includes an assessment approval checklist, which provides guiding questions to ensure that assessments are aligned and rigorous and have enough stretch. 

This Arizona Department of Education presentation highlights national trends, shares concerns from the field, and discusses the use of SLOs as one measure of growth.

This Arizona Department of Education presentation provides a deeper examination of the SLO cycle. The presentation examines the five steps within the cycle: determining students’ level of preparedness, choosing quality assessments, setting achievement and growth, monitoring and adjusting instruction, and establishing summative score.