4 Key Questions States Should Ask About College- and Career-Readiness
States must reconsider their content standards, assessments, and testing practices to keep up with two important trends in college- and career-readiness.
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What Happens to Performance Assessment If We Use It for Accountability?
Those who promote using performance assessment for accountability may want to stop and consider exactly what they want to argue for.
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Ready or Not: AI is Changing Assessment and Accountability
Advances in artificial intelligence are transforming assessment and accountability. We explore the risks and opportunities of AI in 10 areas of K-12 work.
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It’s Time for an Innovative Accountability Pilot
Federal regulations limit states’ innovations in assessment. More substantial innovation can happen only with more flexibility in accountability.
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Through-Year Assessment: A Radical Renegotiation of the School Accountability Contract
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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Reframing Accountability: Build Closer Connections Between School Identification and School Improvement
States can better support school improvement by building stronger connections between accountability design and school improvement.
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How We Talk About Results of Assessment and Accountability Systems
States can use reporting from annual assessment and accountability systems as flashlights, not hammers. But to do that, they need to start planning. Now.
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Guidance for Addressing N-Size in School Accountability and Reporting Systems
Decisions regarding the minimum n-size for accountability indicators can make a big difference in the design and implementation of school accountability systems.
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Accountability Systems Must Offer More Than School Grades
School accountability systems encompass more than what is reflected in school grading systems, which can skew how school quality is seen.
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The Pandemic has Changed the Accountability Landscape
We explore what a national survey tells us about the pandemic impact on accountability systems and how states can prepare for the future.
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Mobility Matters When Designing More Equitable School Accountability Systems
Hear from a Center intern on his work studying performance mobility in contemporary school accountability systems.
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What’s in a Name? Sometimes, Quite a Bit
Considering the Effects of COVID-19 Disruptions on Identifying Schools for Supports Under ESSA Following a two-year hiatus, states must restart their school accountability systems required under ESSA …
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Supporting A Principled Approach to Restarting School Accountability in Spring 2022
Operational Best Practices for Accountability Recently, my colleague Chris Domaleski reminded us of the complexity associated with restarting school accountability in Spring 2022.
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A Principled Approach to Accountability in 2022
Four Principles to Guide State Decisions about ESSA Accountability Systems A large part of the work my colleagues and I do at the Center is focused on helping our clients solve hard problems.
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Oh, What a Year…Again
Responding to Assessment and Accountability Challenges During an Ongoing Pandemic I titled my 2020 year-end CenterLine post, “Oh, What a Year!” with hopes that we were turning the pandemic corner.
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User-Friendly Documentation and Validation Processes
Part 2: Documentation Makes for a Good System. What Makes for a Good System of Documentation? A Vision with Documented Strategy and Tactics Validity is the ultimate goal of any system.
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User-Friendly Documentation and Validation Processes
Part 1: Supporting A Vision with Documented Strategy and Tactics Professionally and personally, we often have projects or tasks where we define desired goals or outcomes, and sometimes even identify t…
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Addressing the Accountability Challenge of Missing Data With A Performance Profile
Consider a Different Way to Put The Pieces Together In a previous post I discussed the challenges of rebuilding accountability systems developed for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in …
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