The Center has developed a series of briefs to support Alabama’s Assessment Task Force as they make decisions for their new assessment system. These briefs include topics such as content […]
Topics: Education Policy
This brief addresses key questions related to the requirements and implications of the Every Student Succeeds Act provision related locally-selected, nationally-recognized high school assessments.
This paper provides guidance to help state education leaders develop an implementation plan to address the provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act related to locally-selected, nationally-recognized high school assessments.
Susan Lyons, Juan D’Brot, and Erika Landl developed the following resource to provide state accountability leaders an overview of the federal law and key design considerations as they develop identification […]
This paper examines the conceptual and practical challenges in developing a system of interim assessments that produces a single summative score for accountability purposes, in line with that detailed in […]
Associate Director Chris Domaleski, along with Senior Associate Brian Gong and colleagues at the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) wrote a paper to help states wrestle with the […]
This brief summarizes the requirements defined within ESSA for the school quality/student success indicator and outlines key factors to consider when identifying, evaluating, and implementing these indicators as part of […]
This book chapter provides a practical framework that decision-makers can use to contextualize, analyze, and more thoughtfully navigate the ethical quandaries that exist in the teacher evaluation system landscape.
This paper was submitted to the United States Department of Education (ED) in September 2016 as comments on the proposed ESSA federal regulations (§200.77) for the section 1204 Innovative Assessment […]
This document, published in conjunction with Knowledge Works, provides a detailed guide to help state and district leaders create detailed theories of action, particularly for innovative assessment systems.
This memo to U.S. Education Secretary John King was jointly prepared by the Center for Assessment and KnowledgeWorks in March 2016 to advise on the implementation of the Innovative Assessment […]
This peer-reviewed article assesses the implementation, impact, and evolution of two pre-service teacher performance assessments (PACT and edTPA).
This report presents the recommendations from Wyoming’s Assessment Task Force to support the state’s next statewide assessment system. The report includes technical, policy, and practical recommendation as well as the […]
Assessment in the Classroom – Bringing it all Together Thursday, September 18th Agenda Time Topic 7:30am Registration & Breakfast 8:30am Welcome to the 2014 Reidy Interactive Lecture SeriesBrian Gong, Center […]
This brief highlights key findings from the larger document entitled “State practices related to the use of student achievement measures in the evaluation of teachers in non-tested subjects”, which outlines […]
This paper summarizes current state practices related to the collection and use of student achievement measures for teacher evaluation in non-tested subjects and grades (NTSG). It highlights key areas of […]
States attempting to adopt a common core aligned state assessment, particularly those committed to a national consortium, are finding the procurement process to be more complicated than in the past. […]
The brief paper helps to contextualize the Common Core State Standards as the next step in a 30-year history of standards-based educational reform.