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…
Topics: Educational Measurement
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…
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).
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.
In recent years, several states have experienced technology failures with their computer-based summative tests that have led to administration interruptions.
This paper provides a framework to support the conceptualization and development of a comprehensive validation plan uniquely aligned to a defined Educator Evaluation System.
After the initial report of findings was presented in Indiana, legislators raised the question of whether the overall finding of no impact could be a function of two factors cancelling each other out:…
In order to understand the text dependent analysis construct and its implications on instruction,the Center for Assessment and the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) began aninitiative to stud…
Developed for CCSSO, this white paper provides an overview for policy-makers of the reasons why score comparisons across assessments are especially important now and what is likely to be possible and …
In Spring, 2013, Indiana students experienced interruptions while taking the ISTEP+ on-line.