Eight Key Threats to Balanced Assessment Systems
A new guide, to be shared at RILS next month, outlines features that make assessment systems more or less balanced.
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Designing for Coherence
True coherence exists when standards, curricula, instruction, assessment and professional learning are all grounded in a shared vision of student learning.
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Changing State Assessments Won’t Improve Student Learning
If we want students to learn more, we must engage them with good teaching and meaningful content.
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Center Board Member Honored by AERA
Dr. Linda Cook is the 2025 recipient of the E. F. Lindquist Award, the American Educational Research Association announced today. After obtaining her doctorate in educational measurement and statistics from […]
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Scott Marion to Assume New Role at the Center for Assessment
Dr. Scott Marion, the executive director of the Center for Assessment, will step down from that post effective September 2025. Scott isn’t leaving the Center, however; he’ll be deepening and […]
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What Makes an Assessment Instructionally Useful?
Center Experts’ Book Sheds Light on Key Issue Many education leaders and vendors claim that a range of standardized assessments can provide information that’s instructionally useful for teachers. Such claims […]
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