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41 Focusing State Educational Accountability Systems: 4 Methods of Judging Quality and Progress
Dale Carlson, Board member of the Center for Assessment, outlined a framework in this seminal 2002 paper for conceptualizing accountability system design, particularly considering the relationship of growth-based to status-based systems.
Dale Carlson 2006 Paper
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42 Developing a Value Table for Alaska’s Public School Performance Incentive Program
This paper outlines the process by which Alaska established the Value Table it is proposing for its school performance incentive program and provides some initial summary results.
Richard Hill 2006 Paper
(54KB)

43 What’s a State Leader to Do? The State’s Role in Supporting Local Assessment Systems
This presentation from the 2006 CCSSO conference on large-scale assessment describes the policy and professional support actions that state leaders can take in supporting formative and other local assessment systems.
Scott Marion 2006 Slides
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44 Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning
This presentation from the 2006 CCSSO conference on large-scale assessment contains an overview of the key features of formative and classroom assessment systems.
Scott Marion 2006 Slides
(57KB)

45 I’m a Psychometrician and I’m Here to Help (and Learn)
This presentation from the 2006 CCSSO conference on large-scale assessment includes a summary of the technical documentation work completed thus far as part of the New Hampshire Enhanced Initiative. A discussion of the major challenges of documenting the technical qualities of alternate assessment on alternate achievement standards, especially the flexibility inherent in many alternate assessment designs is presented.
Scott Marion 2006 Slides
(97KB)

46 Establishing Cutscores for Alternate Assessment on Alternate Achievement Standards
This presentation from the 2006 CCSSO conference on large-scale assessment presents a framework for establishing achievement standards for alternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and suggests a hybrid model for accomplishing this challenging task.
Scott Marion 2006 Slides
(78KB)

47 Dealing with flexibility in assessments for students with significant cognitive disabilities
This paper analyzes and describes the flexibility or unintended variation in alternate assessments on alternate achievement standards in an effort to provide a framework for assessment system designers and for those responsible for evaluating the technical quality of such systems.
Brian Gong, Scott Marion 2006 Paper
(259KB)

48 Using Value Tables for a School-Level Accountability System
A paper presented at a symposium during the 2006 NCME Annual Conference that outlines the process of using Value Tables for a statewide accountability system.
Richard Hill 2006 Paper
(213KB)

49 Incorporating Growth Models into AYP Determinations: NCME 2006 Growth Presession Materials
This workshop, associated with the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) 2006 meeting in San Francisco, was designed to familiarize participants with the types of growth models that could be incorporated into AYP determinations under the recently announced flexibility.
Richard Hill, Scott Marion, Ellen Forte, William Erpenbach 2006 Slides
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50 Using Value Tables to Explicitly Value Growth
A presentation, given at the 2005 MARCES Conference on Longitudinal Modeling of Student Achievement, that outlines issues associated with using Value Tables as part of an accountability system.
Richard Hill, Brian Gong, Scott Marion, Charles DePascale, Jenn Dunn, Mary Ann Simpson 2005 Paper
(160KB)

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