States are increasingly interested in conceptualizing, defining, and assessing what are often called 21st century skills or deeper-learning competencies. This paper explores the conceptualizations, definitions, and understandings in the research […]
Topics: Assessment
Latest Resources
States are increasingly interested in defining and assessing what are often called 21st century skills or deeper-learning competencies. This paper explores the conceptualizations, definitions, and understandings in the research literature […]
States are increasingly interested in conceptualizing, defining, and assessing what are often called 21st century skills or deeper-learning competencies. This paper explores the literature on complex communication. Key initial questions […]
This paper provides a set of assessment and accountability recommendations for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The authors also recommend changes to the Innovative Assessment Demonstration […]
This report summarizes an investigation into score changes in states administering the ACT to all high school students. The report contains numerous recommendations for ACT for improving its documentation and […]
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 and advance […]
Juan D’Brot and Scott Marion led an Assessment Task Force for the New Mexico Public Education Department to help create this framework for New Mexico’s next statewide assessment system and […]
This paper argues that there should be many different interim assessment designs to match varied instructional uses, and provides examples.
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 rapid review of twenty studies examines and characterizes interim assessment use. The findings show (1) that individual interim assessments are often used for multiple purposes, (2) that the most […]
Improving the Selection, Use, and Evaluation of Interim Assessments Interim Assessment Toolkit Part 1: Identifying Assessment Gaps and Needs Interim Assessment Toolkit Part 2: Assessment Characteristics and Evidence of Quality […]
The purpose of this brief is to examine disproportionality with respect to student group participation in Alternate Assessments aligned with Alternate Academic Achievement Standards (AA-AAAS). This paper is a companion […]
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. We also […]
This paper discusses how the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) differ from previous academic standards and explores some key structural challenges in designing assessments for the NGSS. It then provides […]
This 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. It also provides an […]
Carla Evans and Chris Domaleski prepared a technical brief with the National Center on Educational Outcomes to help states implement federal guidance related to participation rates for alternate assessments aligned […]
This presentation, made 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 presentation examines multiple state efforts to develop performance level descriptors based on the Next Generation Science Standards, with a focus on how the findings might provide guidance to classroom […]