This document provides guidance for education leaders in developing a communication plan when there are changes to statewide assessments.
Topics: Assessment Literacy
How do attitudes and beliefs about assessment affect teaching and learning in your school? In partnership with ISTE, the Center has created a guide that’s intended to help school and […]
This document lays out a few high-level principles and practices around cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) / diagnostic classification models (DCMs) that are commonly of relevance for practical applications of these models. The document has […]
This research synthesis is intended to provide the research background for the content and design of the Educator Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Screening Tool.
The Student Learning Objectives Toolkit is a resource developed by the Center to help educators map out the process for developing quality SLOs. This module contains the following: –SLO – […]
The purpose of this symposium was to explore a needs-based assessment model approach to identify, support, and sustain the development of K-12 educators’ assessment literacy capacities in ways that are […]
Educational assessments are powerful tools for guiding and informing teaching, learning, and school and district improvement. They are one of the multiple measures policymakers can use to improve the performance […]
This presentation illustrates how the Center for Assessment uses Lave and Wenger’s (1991) concept of “legitimate peripheral participation” in our work to improve assessment literacy at scale.
This paper reviews the literature on assessment literacy and builds a conceptual framework for defining and guiding future work on assessment literacy. The framework presents assessment literacy as a context […]
This 2012 NCME presentation provides an introduction to recent national educational policies and identifies associated measurement issues and other implications that graduate students and new measurement professionals should be aware […]
A second presentation by Richard Hill to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute on data-driven decision making.