It 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, […]
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A 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 […]
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Design 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 […]
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The 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 […]
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Evaluating Grade 8 Student Achievement Outcomes for the NH PACE Program, an Innovative Assessment System This is the third in a series of posts by our 2020 summer interns and their mentors […]
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Many 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 […]
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The 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, […]
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COVID-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 […]
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Focusing on Assessment Purposes and Uses to Identify Potential Sources of Instructional Information As seen by our growing list of recent CenterLine posts, professionals at the Center for Assessment are […]
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Looking 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 […]
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Evaluating Interim Assessments Against the Criteria for Balanced Assessment Systems Interim assessments may have a role in balanced assessment systems, but that role is not conferred by title. It is […]
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A Look at Fulfilling Hopes for Innovative Assessments and Instructional Utility It may sound innovative to claim that commercial interim assessments support instruction, but simply saying it doesn’t make it […]
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An Approach to Promote Coherence by Connecting Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction to Student Learning State and district leaders are increasingly interested in implementing balanced systems of assessment, in large part […]
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment The seminal publication, Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (NRC, 2001), crystalized the call for balanced systems of […]
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