More than a dozen states are exploring or piloting through-year assessments to replace their current end-of-year summative test for accountability.
Topics: Educational Measurement
Through-year assessment is enjoying a surge of attention, with more than a dozen states designing, piloting, or implementing versions of this assessment model to replace their current end-of-year summ…
This document lays out a few high-level principles and practices around cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) / diagnostic classification models (DCMs) that are commonly of relevance f…
These resources were developed by the Center for Assessment to support best practices related to instructing and assessing 21st century skills – the cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal compe…
The Center at 20: Leveraging the lessons of the past to improve the impact of assessment and accountability practices Thursday, September 27th Agenda TimeTopic8:30amWelcome to RILSScott Marion, Center…
This peer-reviewed study was originally prepared for the University of New Hampshire’s Education Department and investigates the predictive validity and policy impact of Council for Accreditation of…
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 Hampshire̵…
Assessing Student Learning of the Next Generation Science Standards RILS Summary Day One Blog Day Two Blog Download Agenda Thursday, September 28th Agenda TimeTopic8:30amWelcome to RILSScott Marion, C…
This paper was presented in September, 2017 at the Center for Assessment annual Reidy Interactive Lecture Series.
This peer-reviewed article critically evaluates value-added accountability measures currently enacted in the United States at the federal and state levels to assess teacher preparation program effecti…
This book review examines Mark Paige’s book, “Building a Better Teacher: Understanding Value-Added Models in the Law of Teacher Evaluations”.
This document contains the written version of the presidential address delivered by Charlie DePascale at the 47th annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA).
Setting the Foundation: Frameworks for Assessment, Context, and Literacy Fit the Assessment to Intended Purpose and Uses – Erika Hall Assessments: Beyond the Claims – Jeri Thompson Assessm…
This report, commissioned in 2016 by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) Technical Issues In Large-Scale Assessment (TILSA) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCAS…
This paper was prepared for the 2016 annual meeting of the National Council for Measurement in Education.
These resources were developed by the Center to support comprehensive evaluations of standardized assessments measuring college- and career-ready standards relative to CCSSO’s Criteria for Procu…
This document, written by Brian Gong and Thanos Patelis, describes the Center for Assessment methodology for evaluating the test content components of the Council of Chief State School Officers’…
In 2015, the Center for Assessment worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop this document annotating the assessment peer review guidance as of that time.