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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Evaluating Generative AI Feedback in Classroom Assessment: A Meta-Synthesis
Generative AI is increasingly used to provide feedback in classrooms, but how effective is that feedback? Our study answers that question.
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Building on a Strong Foundation: A New Chapter of Leadership at the Center
As three new leaders take the helm at the Center for Assessment, they share their vision for the future and the commitments that will guide them.
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Our Assessment Systems Should Reflect the Purposes of Public Education
Americans have long recognized the broad mission of public education, but haven’t had good ways to measure our progress toward it.
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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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Designing for Coherence
True coherence exists when standards, curricula, instruction, assessment and professional learning are all grounded in a shared vision of student learning.
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Changing State Assessments Won’t Improve Student Learning
If we want students to learn more, we must engage them with good teaching and meaningful content.
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Rethinking Assessment on a Shrinking, Shifting Landscape
We need systems that acknowledge the demographic shifts and data blind spots that make it harder to tell the story of student learning.
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Statewide Assessments Are Critical for Informed Public School Choice
As public school choice expands, state tests play an increasingly important role: providing a common benchmark to help families evaluate their options.
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Zero-based Assessment System Design
How an idea from budget management can help school districts break the logjams they face when they try to get rid of unnecessary tests.
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What We’re Up To: Center Presentations at NCSA 2025
We’ve got a great lineup of presentations at the National Conference on Student Assessment. Here’s a quick rundown.
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Using Reference Data to Inform Standard-Setting
States must consider setting standards when they launch a new test, revise their content standards, or make other changes that could influence assessment comparability.
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Evolving Expectations for Fairness in Testing
Comparing the two most recent versions of The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing shows the field’s changing conceptions of fairness.
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Score Reporting Isn’t Enough: What Comes Next Matters
Test score data could be more useful if we built a constellation of supports and resources that helped users see their next steps.
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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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