A collection of presentations on what it takes to implement balanced assessment systems, from the Center’s 2025 conference.
Topics: Balanced Assessment Systems
Student agency is a crucial skill, but schools struggle to teach and assess it. This review explores its assessment implications.
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 […]
The Center has long advocated that schools and districts undertake thoughtful reviews of the assessments they require, so they create a system of assessments that provides the information they need, […]
The District Assessment Procurement Protocol (DAPP) is designed to support school district leaders as they select high-quality assessment products that serve the specific information needs of their district. The tool […]
The District Assessment Design Toolkit is designed to help district and school leaders review their ecosystem of assessments in a systematic way. The toolkit consists of a spreadsheet template and […]
This report provides information and guidance that supports the Norwalk, Conn., Public Schools in defining its strategy for the design and implementation of balanced systems of assessment that provide users […]
This presentation provides an introduction to theories of action in the context of balanced assessment systems. The goal of this work is to make explicit the key design decisions that […]
The landscape of statewide, large-scale educational assessment is shifting away from “stand-alone” summative assessments and toward integrated sets of assessments designed to support various interpretations and uses. This coordinated session […]
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 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, 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 […]
This peer-reviewed article describes methods that the Center for Assessment tested that strengthen the comparability claims about the annual determinations of student proficiency in New Hampshire’s Performance Assessment of Competency […]
Beyond Next Generation Summative Assessments: Comprehensive Assessment Systems September 17th – September 18th Presentations From the 2015 Conference Right-sizing TestingBrian Gong, Center for AssessmentProvides advice on how to “right-size” testing […]
This paper, presented at AERA in April 2012, outlines an approach for validating local assessments. It provides a framework intended to help district-level personnel develop and evaluate district-wide assessments aligned […]
Expanding Conceptions of Psychometrics to Evaluate the Technical Quality of Next Generation Balanced Assessment Systems October 21st-22nd Agenda Session I Implications of Next Generation Assessment Systems for Criteria and Tools […]
This paper defines balanced assessment and presents examples of what a balanced and coherent assessment system could look like.
This policy brief, written with the Aspen Institute’s Education and Society Program, provides a conceptual foundation to help state and district leaders think about whether to incorporate interim assessments into […]