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Funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services’ (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries program, the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University will lead a three-year, $487,960 applied research grant that will collaborate with a team of Library Partners and an Advisory Panel to understand school librarians’ experiences with and needs related to the assessment of making practices and will engage in an iterative co-design process of tools to meet these needs. As maker programs increasingly incorporate AI-supported tools, librarians lack practical assessment tools to evaluate students’ use of these tools and evaluation of AI outputs, documentation of human–AI collaboration during making activities, and the use of AI as an assessment tool. The project will utilize a design-based implementation research approach to understand school librarians’ experiences with and needs related to the assessment of making practices and engage in an iterative co-design process of tools to meet these needs. The project aims to develop a set of assessment tools, approaches, and resources appropriate for use in public-school libraries to measure the process and outcomes of maker programming as well as to identify best practices for using a work circle co-design process for creating assessment tools. All findings and assessment tools will be made readily available to public school libraries via the project website, open-access repositories, and shared as widely as possible through public school library community networks.