Selecting the Right Assessments to Monitor School Recovery from the Pandemic
Your assessment selection can ensure you can monitor recovery efforts and confirm evidence of learning progress following the pandemic.
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 dimensions. As […]
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. After providing some background and context, I provide […]
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 single, […]
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. Strong assumptions […]
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 project and the […]
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 back […]
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 […]
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). In the first […]
Read MoreWhen Mary Ann Snider and I wrote in late April, “We can seize this opportunity to create assessment experiences that require students to think deeply and to demonstrate that deep thinking,” we […]
Read MoreMany changes are being considered for schools in 2020-2021 and beyond in the era of COVID-19 and disruptions to schooling. Some of these include later school-year starts, blended instructional models […]
Read MoreThe Instructional Landscape Is Not What We Were Expecting, But We Know What To Do: Return to Assessment 101 In recent weeks, several CenterLine posts have addressed how states, districts, […]
Read MoreHow Selecting the Appropriate Assessment Can Help Inform Instruction This Fall Schools have dismissed students to enforce social distancing and have implemented remote learning for the rest of the 2019-20 […]
Read MoreCOVID-19 School Closures Provide an Opportunity to Think About and Assess Learning Differently Jal Mehta, author of In Search of Deeper Learning, was recently interviewed by Rick Hess about how to support deeper […]
Read MoreLooking Beyond Large-Scale Assessment for Valuable Information to Support Schools, Teachers, and Students Following School Closures I have been uplifted by the dialogue that is occurring across the country as […]
Read MoreWhat Would it Take to Design an Assessment System Around a Goal of Improving Teaching Quality and Teachers’ Knowledge and Skills? How would I design an assessment or assessment system […]
Read MoreA Practical Application of the Need to Fill the Gap Between Theories of Action and the Implementation and Evaluation of a New Program or System If you’ve ever worked with […]
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