This paper explores the potential opportunities and risks of several assessment options that could be available with more federal flexibility.
Topics: Education Policy
To improve school accountability, we must confront and change the faulty assumptions that undergird the system. This paper provides a new framing.
This brief describes discusses the types of contract language necessary for states using AI in statewide assessment systems.
This document provides guidance for education leaders in developing a communication plan when there are changes to statewide assessments.
This paper provides guidance to support small changes that could help raise the salience of civic goals and generate data to monitor progress.
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.