Rater Monitoring with Inter-Rater Reliability may Not be Enough for Next-Generation Assessments Testing experts know a lot about how to conduct scoring of students’ written responses to assessment items. Raters […]
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Understanding How Machine Scoring Can Be Used Now, and What We Need to Do to Expand Its Usefulness for the Future Without a doubt, the public is skeptical about using […]
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Weights Assigned to Indicators May Not Reflect Their Actual Contribution to Final Scores States give a lot of weight to the weights given to the indicators in their accountability systems. Decisions […]
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Frequent Changes to State Assessment Systems Place Educational Improvement on Shaky Ground. “We just administered our third assessment in the past five years.” “That’s nothing; we’re on our fifth assessment […]
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Current Assessments May Require New Equating Methods and Procedures to Ensure Results will be Comparable Across Test Forms One of the fundamental tenets of equating two tests is that it […]
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A Framework to Help State Assessment Teams Deal Effectively With Change Heraclitus of Ephesus said that “The only thing that is constant is change.” This observation certainly applies to K-12 […]
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Taking a Principled Approach to Evaluating Reporting Scales and Performance Standards when Modifications are Made to Assessments For a variety of reasons—political, psychometric and practical—states are often required to modify […]
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The Road from Defining and Measuring Alignment to Effectively Using it in the Design of Assessments and Assessment Systems Alignment turns 25 this year. Happy Birthday, Alignment! Alignment burst onto […]
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Why Evaluation of Educational System Designs is Critical to Measuring Effectiveness and Results Educational policy makers, program designers, and intervention developers typically identify a problem and propose a solution to […]
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Sufficiency Considerations for Competency-Based Assessment Systems Many schools have turned to competency-based education for meeting both equity and excellence goals. Competency-based education requires students to demonstrate mastery of key knowledge […]
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This is the first in a series of posts highlighting key pieces of work from the Center’s first twenty years. Each post will feature a document, set of tools, or […]
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