The pandemic disruptions to schools have had a well-documented effect on student learning.
Topics: Assessment Systems
We created a series of learning modules that support the development of educators’ classroom assessment literacy in areas critical to student academic success and reducing achievement gaps.
In this policy brief, Senior Associate, Juan D’Brot, provides clear recommendations for state leaders about how to learn as much as possible from their technical advisors.
By describing what is to be assessed and how to assess it, assessment frameworks play a pivotal role in testing programs.
From Session 3 of the 2021 Convening: Technical and logistical issues associated with through-year designs are not for the faint of heart.
From Session 2 of the 2021 Convening: Claims are the foundation for design and validation.
From Session 1 of the 2021 Convening: Given the considerable variety of designs using the terms “through course,” “through year,” “distributed assessment,” or others, we start the convenin…
Designing a balanced district assessment system is difficult work that requires stakeholders with different levels of responsibility and authority to come to a common understanding about the purpose o…
Writing requests for proposals (RFPs) can be daunting and confusing.
Part 2: Opportunities: The Outlook for Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges on the Road Ahead From Session 6, Part 2, of RILS 2021: What have we learned from prominent attempts to promote innovati…
From Session 5 of RILS 2021: This session will explore how the assessment system design for innovative assessments can be informed by rapid prototyping, feedback, and successive revisions at all stage…
From Session 4 of RILS 2021: In this session, we use a theory of action framework as a tool for structuring, communicating, and implementing balanced assessment systems.
From Session 3 of RILS 2021: Design innovation in educational assessment systems assumes that the design addresses stakeholder needs and concerns with the currently-implemented assessment system, as w…
From Session 2 of RILS 2021: Designing a balanced assessment system that meets the various needs of stakeholders requires both an understanding of the context as well as the problem that needs to be s…
From Session 1 of RILS 2021: Drawing on his own experiences with innovation and educational assessment systems over the past six decades, Center Alum Charlie DePascale will offer a brief look at the h…
This presentation provides an introduction to theories of action in the context of balanced assessment systems.
The landscape of statewide, large-scale educational assessment is shifting away from “stand-alone” summative assessments and towards integrated sets of assessments designed to support various inte…
This paper, by the Center for Assessment and the Aurora Institute, presents a vision and discusses requirements for balanced systems of assessments that can support competency-based education models a…