
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.
Read MoreThose who promote using performance assessment for accountability may want to stop and consider exactly what they want to argue for.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIt’s time to focus on the role of formative and large-scale assessment in student learning recovery efforts.
Read MoreWe explain how to incorporate program evaluation in education after you have organized your program to connect it to your evaluation.
Read MoreImprovement science can address educational issues, but only with program evaluation can its efficacy in improving outcomes be measured.
Read MoreProgram evaluation can demonstrate the desired outcomes of educational initiatives, programs, and other “things” are coming to fruition.
Read MoreWe explore what balanced assessment systems are and whether interim assessments are a requirement for them to work.
Read MoreUsing a state test to inform instruction is possible, but has limitations that educators and other stakeholders need to understand.
Read MoreYour assessment selection can ensure you can monitor recovery efforts and confirm evidence of learning progress following the pandemic.
Read MoreAdapting Toolkits to Support Assessment System Audits Many local and state education agencies strive to develop assessment systems that can be considered “balanced” along a variety of design dimen…
Read MoreA Focus on Creativity In my recent post, I promised to reveal the type of through year assessment design I’d like to see.
Read MoreIt Will Take a Village to Fulfill the Opportunities of Through Year Assessment Systems “Through year” or “through course” assessment systems are rapidly proliferating as an alternative to the …
Read MoreA First-Hand Account of Responding to Student Needs With Learning Acceleration The Oklahoma State Department of Education’s (OSDE) highest priority is keeping students and staff safe so that we can …
Read MoreAssumptions, Claims, and the Evidence Needed to Support Them Assumptions lead to claims about the types of inferences and uses that an assessment system is intended to support.
Read MoreA Research-Based Framework Monitoring the Use of Performance Assessments to Promote Positive Instructional Change This is the fourth post by one of our 2021 summer interns based on their pro…
Read MoreDesign Innovation in Educational Assessment Systems Held each fall since 1999, the Reidy Interactive Lecture Series (RILS) provides a unique opportunity for a diverse group of participants to step bac…
Read MoreDissecting the Conundrum of Testing Throughout the Year or Once at the End in a Conversation Between Teacher and Student Various states have advanced through course assessment proposals, in which stat…
Read MoreThe Challenges of Creating Balanced Assessment Systems “…a collection of assessments does not entail a system any more than a pile of bricks entails a house.” Coladarci (2002).
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