Score Reporting Isn’t Enough: What Comes Next Matters
Test score data could be more useful if we built a constellation of supports and resources that helped users see their next steps.
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What Is School Accountability? Untangling Definitions, Purposes and Possibilities
If accountability is to serve its purposes well, we need to imagine it as a necessary component of a broader system.
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The Secret to Making Policy Stick: Getting the Advice You Need
Policies don’t implement themselves. Three key advisory groups can help states move from concept to classroom.
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We’re at NCME and AERA 2025! Come Check Us Out
We’ve got a fascinating lineup of presentations at the two big education research conferences, NCME and AERA. Here’s a quick rundown.
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Generative AI and Cara’s Other Favorite Accessibility Things
Oprah has her list. We have ours. Check out the accessibility tools and innovations that Cara Laitusis loves.
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What Is Fair? Equity in Education
Equity is under attack. But equity is not a threat—it is fairness in action. It ensures that every student gets the support they need to succeed in school.
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Improving Balance in Assessment Systems: Let’s Learn Together
At our conference, we’ll ask what it takes to implement balanced assessment systems and explore how tests can support or hinder teaching and learning.
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Culturally Responsive Assessment: From Classrooms to Large-Scale Settings
A new volume explores what we’ve learned about culturally responsive assessment and how we can build on it to serve students better.
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Facing Federal Contract Cancellations Head-On
The cancellation of federal research contracts cuts states’ and districts’ access to good data. These five ideas help them preserve and use the data they have.
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Choosing a Growth Model: Far More Than Technical Factors
Nearly all states use a measure of student growth in their accountability systems. But how should they choose a model? Our new paper provides guidance.
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Comparability Isn’t All or Nothing
Understanding comparability as a multifaceted problem—not a yes-or-no issue—can help states as they create innovative assessment systems.
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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills: A Focus on Student Agency
Agency—the ability to control one’s own thoughts, processes and actions—is a key skill for students to master. But assessing that mastery is challenging.
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The Challenges of Assessing 21st Century Competencies
A new report from the Center explores the challenges of assessing 21st century competencies and offers practical advice.
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Subtraction in Assessment and Accountability (Re)Design
Resisting our urge to add design layers to assessment and accountability systems—and subtracting instead—can produce better solutions.
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Assessment Score Reports Must Get Better!
Two relatively easy changes in states’ assessment score reports can go a long way toward helping users understand the results.
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We’re Better Together!
Collaboration defined our work in 2024 and is at the heart of the Center’s philosophy. When we push one another to hone our ideas, we reach new heights.
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Equity and the Accessibility Game Plan
Key strategies from the world of accessibility offer helpful guidance in advancing equity in educational testing in K12 schools.
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Right-Sizing ESSA Accountability
States can create an accountability mix that right-sizes federal requirements and their own priorities, by blending or separating the two.
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