Margaret Heritage joined WestEd Senior Scientist in October 2014 after 12 years as an Assistant Director at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) UCLA. Heritage’s current work is focused on formative assessment and how to support teachers’ effective implementation at scale, and on language learning progressions to ground assessment of English language learners. Her most recent book English Language Learners and the New Standards, is co-authored with Aida Walqui and Robert Linquanti and is published by Harvard Education Press. 

Her most recent publications include a co-authored paper, published in Education Measurement: Issues and Practice, on teachers use of formative assessment evidence (2009), a contribution on student self-assessment to a special issue of the National Middle School Association Journal (2009), a paper co-authored with W.J. Popham on professional development for formative assessment use, published by the Educational Testing Service (2008), and a co-authored a book with Alison Bailey, Formative Assessment for Literacy and Academic Language, published in 2008. Her latest book, Formative Assessment: Making It Happen in the Classroom (2010), is published by Corwin Press.