Slow the Flow of Your RFPs
Advancing educational assessment, like through-year assessment programs, can be supported by changes to the RFP process.
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Can We Stop Obsessing About the Effects of Remote Instruction on Student Learning?
Let’s start talking about student learning recovery and stop focusing on the impact of remote instruction during the pandemic.
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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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Just Give Us a Little
One small change in Federal testing law could lead to significant improvements in state tests and the perception of state testing.
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In Search of the “Just Right” Connection Between Curriculum and Assessment
Considering Options Between Curriculum-Specific and Curriculum-Agnostic State Assessment State summative assessments are intentionally designed to be curriculum-agnostic. The design of these state assessments ignores the various instructional materials and other […]
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Can We Reduce Testing Time?
Issues and Considerations Regarding Time Spent on Testing It’s rare to find an issue that nearly everyone agrees with, but I think that the desire to reduce testing time is […]
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Accountability Doesn’t Need to Be Restarted. It Needs to Be Revised!
Making the Case for a New Approach to Federal School Accountability The U.S. Department of Education followed an all too familiar pattern of publishing important guidance just before the Christmas […]
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Charting a Course for School Accountability in 2022
Navigating Federal Requirements In the midst of the holiday season, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) released a draft FAQ addressing the requirements for school accountability in 2022 under ESSA. We […]
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Following Their Lead: Conversations About Innovative Assessment
Discussions with State Leaders Approved to Implement Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority Pilots Five states have been approved to implement innovative assessment pilots as part of the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) under […]
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It’s Déjà vu All Over Again: Revisiting Assessment Recommendations With an Eye on Learning Acceleration
A Need to Support Learning Acceleration in School Year 2021-2022 I was asked recently if the Center was producing assessment recommendations for back-to-school this fall. My first reaction was, “wait, […]
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Accountability as a Roadblock to Assessment Reform
Advocating for Changes to Federal Accountability Requirements to Enable Innovative Assessment Many of us at the Center for Assessment have led assessment reform for decades, including such noteworthy programs as […]
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Rethinking School Accountability for the 2020-2021 School Year
State and district leaders are working hard to prepare for in-person schooling in 2020-2021 while also planning for hybrid models or, at worst, full remote learning should certain locales become […]
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The Outlook for ESSA School Accountability After COVID-19
A Return to the Status Quo is Unlikely and That’s Just Fine For those hoping for minimal disruption to ESSA school accountability, I have bad news and more bad news. […]
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The Next Generation of State Assessment and Accountability
Part 3: Changes to the Current Accountability Model That May Fundamentally Reshape Educational Assessment and Accountability This is the final installment in a three-part series on the future of large-scale […]
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COVID-19: In Search of Continuity of Student Learning After Extended School Closures
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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An Assessment Response to Anticipated Learning Gaps
Implications of School Closures on Assessment Needs According to Education Week, “as of March 23, 2020, 7:31 p.m. ET: 46 states have decided to close schools. Combined with district closures in other […]
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School Improvement is Hard! How Can Educational Assessment and Accountability Systems Help?
Building a Better Theory of Action to Enhance the Utility of Assessment and Accountability Systems How do schools improve? More importantly, how can school improvement be sustained over time and […]
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Sizing Up the Next Generation of Large-Scale State Assessment and Accountability
Part 2: The Role of Education Theory, Public Support, and Political Policy in Shaping the Next Dominant Pattern in State Assessment and Accountability This is the second in a three-part […]
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