These resources were developed by the Center for Assessment to support comprehensive evaluations of standardized assessments measuring college- and career-ready standards relatives to CCSSO’s Cr…
Topics: Large Scale Assessment
The Center for Assessment produced this document to help state assessment leaders and technical advisors plan for and conduct analyses of their spring 2021 state assessment results in order to evaluat…
This report contains a summary of the deliberations and recommendations to the Utah State Board of Education from the Utah Assessment Strategic Plan Work Group.
This workbook was developed to support comprehensive planning efforts for statewide summative assessments under the uncertain conditions surrounding the COVID19 pandemic.
Chris Domaleski and Scott Marion explore the potential strengths and limitations of various options for state testing in 2021 given the challenges raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This CCSSO-sponsored paper outlines a range of technical issues for state leaders and assessment providers to consider as they prepare for their spring 2021 state summative assessments.
This report summarizes an investigation into score changes in states administering the ACT to all high school students.
This paper discusses how the NGSS differ from previous standards, some key structural challenges in designing assessments of the NGSS, and then provides examples of how claims in the form of achieveme…
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) addresses concerns about the effects of high-stakes achievement tests by authorizing a pilot program that allows up to seven states to apply for a waiver from fed…
Scott Marion discusses the challenges and issues associated with current high school testing models and offers some thoughts about how we can improve current practices.
This paper is the final report of a study of the effects of test interruptions in three states.
Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) questions are a new item type on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) which has been developed in response to the PA Core Standards.
This Handbook and corresponding Powerpoints provide a guide for building Range and Target PLDs for large scale assessments that are designed for the multiple purposes of measuring student achievement …
Stuart Kahl discusses the challenges and opportunities of next generation assessment systems during the 2009 Reidy Interactive Lecture Series.
This presentation was given in a CAS SCASS session and focuses on how the definition of Proficient varies across states.
This document outlines required elements for a standard setting plan and technical manual and provides a suggested outline for vendors to follow in preparation of such reports for their state technica…
This paper, presented at the 2008 NCME annual meeting, explores using learning progression to inform the development of performance level descriptors.
This paper describes how performance level descriptors should be developed, contrasts that with current state practice, and discusses the implication for interpreting the word proficient, which is the…