Many states are considering replacing their year-end tests with through-year assessments. But this change would impact states’ implicit accountability contracts with schools.
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The Center’s latest paper provides sound advice for the states exploring through-year assessment right now, cautioning that this approach comes with serious challenges and tradeoffs.
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An assessment’s negative or positive consequences are just as important as other dimensions of assessment quality, and should be part of test validity evaluations.
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Practical Challenges to the Use of Through-Year Assessment for Accountability The interest in using through-year assessment systems in place of traditional end-of-year state summative assessments has been increasing rapidly and […]
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2023 was a busy year for assessment and accountability. Scott Marion recaps the year’s key issues and looks ahead to questions that loom large for 2024.
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Using a state test to inform instruction is possible, but has limitations that educators and other stakeholders need to understand.
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Through-year and other novel test designs face challenges in peer review. Three changes by the U.S. Department of Education could improve the process.
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Advancing educational assessment, like through-year assessment programs, can be supported by changes to the RFP process.
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Based on Remarks Given During a Town Hall Session at the 2022 NCME Conference I was honored to participate in a validity “town hall” at last week’s NCME conference with […]
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Scott Marion reflects on what we have learned after another year of recovery after COVID’s interruptions to assessment and accountability in education.
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After Georgia pulled out of a federal assessment pilot, the state’s testing chief reflects on the policy changes necessary to support real test improvement.
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Before launching a project to build an “innovative” assessment for education, it’s wise to define what you want to move toward—and away from.
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Advocating for Changes to Federal Accountability Requirements to Enable Innovative Assessment Many of us at the Center for Assessment have led assessment reform for decades, including such noteworthy programs as […]
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In a bid to jump-start the program, USED expands the IADA. Nearly $22 million is potentially available to support work on new state assessments.
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The Center Welcomes the Return of In-Person AERA and NCME Conferences After two years of virtual conferences, meetings, and just about everything else, Center professionals are excited to gather in […]
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As the pandemic ends, different types of tests tell different stories about student achievement. Key shifts in thinking and action can build more coherence.
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