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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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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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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Test Security: Expanding Our Ideas to Support Score Integrity
Test security has typically focused on preventing, detecting and acting on irregularities. But it should also support fairness and equity.
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Through-Year Assessment: The Importance of Score Reports
Score reports are crucial to a through-year assessment system. We interviewed users of Montana’s new system to see how they interpreted and planned to use information from score reports.
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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills: A Focus on Intercultural Understanding
Intercultural understanding is an important 21st century skill for students, but assessing it is challenging. These guiding principles can help.
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“This Test Is Instructionally Useful.” Where’s the Evidence?
Companies often say their assessments are instructionally useful, but they rarely provide evidence to support those claims.
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Assessment Consequences Matter: A Look Back at RILS 2024
Our annual conference asked an important question: How do we minimize the unintended negative consequences of assessment for individuals and systems?
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