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.
Topics: Assessment Systems
By describing what is to be assessed and how to assess it, assessment frameworks play a pivotal role in testing programs.
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.
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.
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…
This policy brief summarizes our paper, presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, on the design considerations for balanced systems of assessment.
The paper, presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, presents a discussion of design considerations for balanced systems of assessment as well as an in-depth…
This presentation at the 2018 NCME Classroom Assessment conference provides guidance on what states should consider when defining claims for their assessments of the Next Generation Science Standards.
This paper explores, in detail, a number of design decisions involved with implementing a system of assessments (i.e.
Scott Marion offers a commentary on papers by Mark Wilson and Lorrie Shepard and colleagues in a special issue of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices.
This document addresses the role of assessment in Competency Based Education (CBE) systems.
In a paper presented at AERA in April 2012, an approach for validating local assessments is presented.
At the 2011 RILS conference, we ask what assessment evaluation questions are we trying to answer with multiple measures?…
At the 2010 RILS conference, we discuss some implications of the design of balanced assessment systems for the evaluation of technical quality of assessments…
Stanley Rabinowitz discusses how to establish comprehensive assessment systems during the 2006 Reidy Interactive Lecture Series.