Fair and Justice-Oriented Assessment
Caroline Wylie and Margaret Heritage discuss their new book, which explores teaching and learning practices that can address opportunity gaps.
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Assessment Must Follow Curriculum and Instruction
We talk a lot about—and aim for—balanced assessment systems. But we’re still not paying enough attention to the instructional core.
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Balanced Assessment Systems, Reimagined as a Relay Race
School districts play a powerful role in creating balanced assessment systems.
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Eight Key Threats to Balanced Assessment Systems
A new guide, to be shared at RILS next month, outlines features that make assessment systems more or less balanced.
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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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Instructionally Useful Assessments: Don’t Tell Us—Show Us
Education leaders and vendors claim that many assessments are “instructionally useful.” Such claims must be highly specific, and supported by evidence.
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Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems
An important new book from the National Academy of Education can support state and district leaders in building balanced assessment systems.
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What We’re Up To: Center Presentations at NCME and AERA
Our associates are giving many fascinating presentations at the assessment field’s two big spring conferences, NCME and AERA. Here’s a quick rundown.
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A New Framework for Universal Design of Assessment Systems
Existing frameworks for universal design aren’t quite right for educational assessment, so we teamed up and designed a new one.
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Issues That Loom Large for K-12 Assessment and Accountability:
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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Federal Innovative Assessment Pilot: Now Open to All States
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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Data, Data, Everywhere. Why So Hard to Use?
States have an abundance of education data. But to use it well, states need good data management practices.
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Towards Coherence in Assessment Systems
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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Using Formative and Large-Scale Assessment as Part of a Comprehensive Recovery System
It’s time to focus on the role of formative and large-scale assessment in student learning recovery efforts.
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Is There a Recipe for Balanced Assessment Systems?
We explore what balanced assessment systems are and whether interim assessments are a requirement for them to work.
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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.
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Monitoring COVID Recovery Efforts
It’s critical that educators use the right educational assessment tools to understand and overcome challenges related to COVID recovery.
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Finding the Right Mix
Adapting 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 […]
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