Student agency is a crucial skill, but schools struggle to teach and assess it. This review explores its assessment implications.
Topics: Balanced Assessment Systems
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 […]
This presentation provides an overview of how local assessments may be used in relation to state accountability systems, and outlines issues of quality control for local assessments. The presentation was […]