Student Learning Objectives (SLO)

This worksheet from the Rhode Island Department of Education can help teachers to identify appropriate sources of baseline data and inform student learning objective growth targets. 

This guidebook from the Rhode Island Department of Education provides an overview of using baseline data and information to set SLO targets. This guide defines baseline data and explains how to use it to set growth targets.

The Rhode Island Department of Education developed this guide to assist teachers and administrators with selecting and developing high-quality assessments at the secondary level. This guide provides

• Information on specific assessments appropriate for the 6–12 grade span
• Purpose of the assessments, advantages and disadvantages of the assessments
• Considerations for a comprehensive assessment system such as daily classroom assessments, local and district developed assessments, and state assessments when applicable

This guide from the Rhode Island Department of Education is intended to assist teachers and school administrators in understanding the critical role that assessments play in the classroom. This guide provides information on specific assessments appropriate for the 3–5 grade span, purpose of the assessments, advantages and disadvantages of the assessments, considerations for a comprehensive assessment system that include daily classroom assessments, local and district developed assessments, and state assessments when applicable. 

This is “how-to” guide from the Rhode Island Department of Education provides guidance on selecting and developing quality assessments in primary classrooms. The guide provides information on specific assessments appropriate for the K–2 grade span, the purpose of the assessments, advantages and disadvantages of the assessments, considerations for a comprehensive assessment system that include daily classroom assessments, local and district developed assessments, and state assessments when applicable. 

This webinar by the Rhode Island Department of Education is on scoring SLOs. Participants will learn how to score individual SLOs. 

This webinar from the Rhode Island Department of Education is on approving SLOs. Participants will learn the process of approving SLOs.

This Rhode Island Department of Education webinar is focused on learning objectives for special educators. Participants will understand when special educators should write SLOs, student outcome objectives (SOOs), or both and understand how to write SLOs and SOOs that fit special educators’ diverse roles. 

This Rhode Island Department of Education webinar is focused on SLOs for building administrators. This webinar

• reviews the basics of the building administrator SLO process
• articulates the role of collaboration in the SLO process between central office administrators and building administrators and between building administrators and teachers
• clarifies the types of alignment between building administrator and teacher SLOs
• considers best practices for assessment and data collection and illustrates the changes to the SLO form

This webinar from the Rhode Island Department of Education explains the student learning objective process for support professionals. The webinar aims to help participants understand the expectations of gradual implementation and key flexibility factors and understand the three evaluation criteria within the support professionals model.