This paper provides guidance to support small changes that could help raise the salience of civic goals and generate data to monitor progress.
Topics: Education Policy
An exploration of the potential of AI, especially generative AI, in key stages of the educational assessment life cycle.
A practical guidebook, webinar and slides for states and districts working to implement balanced assessment systems.
The Center responds to the Senate HELP Committee’s request for information on academic growth models.
Education leaders need new strategies to protect their data and use it effectively, since moves by the Trump administration threaten their access to the data that supports good decision-making.
States should continue to implement high-quality school accountability systems, regardless of the level or nature of federal oversight.
States should keep giving statewide tests even if the Trump administration stops enforcing federal assessment laws.
Nearly all states use a measure of student longitudinal growth in accountability. But how should states decide which growth model to use?
Students need 21st century competencies to succeed in school, work and civic life. But assessing those competencies is challenging.
A collection of presentations on the consequential uses of assessment, from the Center’s 2024 conference.
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 […]
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, educators and policymakers have scrambled to assess the impact on student learning. Popular metrics that have gained traction are the notions of “years […]
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, […]
This report explores the three major approaches to high school testing: survey, end-of-course, and college admissions testing.
The ability to think analytically is vital in today’s world. In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, economic globalization and societal complexities, analytical thinking skills are paramount to career […]
This study explores the effects of COVID-19 on academic growth and achievement in Hawaii schools, and strategies that school leaders used in the recovery from the pandemic. The calculations in […]
Reflecting on and Improving Accountability Systems: Promises and Challenges Agenda Thursday, September 21st Time Topic 9:00am Welcome and Introduction to RILSScott Marion, Center for Assessment 9:15am What Problems are Current […]
Pressure to improve our school accountability systems is mounting. Criticism of accountability isn’t new, but it intensified in 2020, driven by two unprecedented crises: COVID-related school closures and a national […]