Ethical Thinking as a 21st Century Skill
Like other 21st century skills, ethical thinking presents substantial challenges to educators who want to define, teach, and assess it.
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4 Key Questions States Should Ask About College- and Career-Readiness
States must reconsider their content standards, assessments, and testing practices to keep up with two important trends in college- and career-readiness.
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What’s in a Name? The Challenge of Testing Terminology
We use a lot of assessment names—formative, interim, benchmark—without agreeing on their meaning and use. The cost? Public understanding and student learning.
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Understanding Root Causes of Misalignment Between Results from Different Assessments
Policymakers and educators should have guidance to make sense of why different assessments can yield such different results.
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Large-Scale Assessment and Learning to Love Uncertainty
Measuring post-COVID student learning recovery with large-scale assessment draws focus on how we make sense of test scores.
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The Rocky Landscape of Validity Arguments
Drawing on the Center’s recent colloquium, we explain why effective communication can minimize the challenges of validity conversations.
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Advancing Contemporary Validity Theory and Practice
Based on Remarks Given During a Town Hall Session at the 2022 NCME Conference I was honored to participate in a validity “town hall” at last week’s NCME conference with […]
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Technical Advisory Committees: A Counselor for Your Assessment Program
Guidelines for Getting the Most out of Interactions with Your Technical Advisory Committee What kind of advisor is right for you? Advisors come in all different shapes and sizes and […]
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User-Friendly Documentation and Validation Processes (Part 2)
Documentation Makes for a Good System. What Makes for a Good System of Documentation? A Vision with Documented Strategy and Tactics Validity is the ultimate goal of any system. The […]
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User-Friendly Documentation and Validation Processes (Part 1)
Supporting A Vision with Documented Strategy and Tactics Professionally and personally, we often have projects or tasks where we define desired goals or outcomes, and sometimes even identify the steps […]
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Recommendations to Support the Validity of Claims in NGSS Assessment (Part 2)
A New Framework for Organizing and Evaluating Claims This is the second in a series of posts by our 2020 summer interns and their mentors based on their project and the assessment […]
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Recommendations to Support the Validity of Claims in NGSS Assessment (Part 1)
Designing Assessments to Support Claims Once again this year, we are pleased to share posts on CenterLine by our summer interns and their mentors. These posts are based on the project they […]
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You Say Tomato: Concerns About the Diagnostic Assessment Rhetoric
Educators Need Clear Descriptions of the Intended Uses and Interpretations of Educational Assessments Educational assessment has a naming problem and the latest example of it is the current rhetoric regarding […]
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