A collection of presentations on measuring career readiness, from the Center’s 2026 conference.
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Making Validity Work in Practice
In educational assessment, we spend a lot of time talking about validity, but considerably less time figuring out how to make validation work in practice.
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Tilting at Windmills: Classroom Grading Practices That Won’t Go Away
Bad classroom grading practices persist, even though they’re based on technical quicksand. Here are four ways to improve them.
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Academic Growth: Recommendations for the Senate HELP Committee
Center for Assessment Responds to Request for Information (RFI) on Measuring Students’ Academic Success The Center for Assessment responded today to a request for information (RFI) from the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, […]
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Help for Districts & Schools: Implementing Balanced Assessment Systems
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) and the Center for Assessment today released Implementing Balanced Assessment Systems: A Practical Guidebook for Districts & Schools. This critical guidebook will help school […]
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Juan D’Brot Tapped for Leadership Role on Evaluation Standards Committee
Juan D’Brot, an associate director at the Center for Assessment, has been reelected to a three-year term on the executive committee of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. […]
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