This presentation was given in a CAS SCASS session and focuses on how the definition of Proficient varies across states. It illustrates how the definitions can lead to variances in […]
Topics: Large Scale Assessment
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 […]
This paper, presented at the 2008 NCME annual meeting, explores using learning progression to inform the development of performance level descriptors. It addresses descriptors for general, modified, and alternate assessments […]
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 keystone of […]
The final technical phase in many large-scale assessment standard setting projects, when multiple grades are tested, is the articulation meeting, which brings policymakers and other stakeholders together to review the […]
The Center organized a standard setting session for the 2004 Large-Scale Assessment conference. The session focused on standard setting as a process that begins with the development of content standards […]
How can states build alignment between what they value for truly improving teaching and learning and what they identify for inclusion in large-scale assessment? Three New England states have worked […]
This paper is a call by Jack Grayson, Chair of the American Productivity and Quality Center, for applying methods used in other industries (integrated supply chain and six sigma) to […]
This presentation, part of the USED 2004 Leadership Summit on Technology, Assessment, and Accountability, examines the life cycle of assessment and accountability systems in terms of changes that may take […]
This session addresses some of the toughest alignment and test design issues faced by test developers and curriculum specialists, including prioritizing content standards and building developmentally appropriate expectations across grades.
This session examines some of the changes that have occurred with statewide assessment programs as a result of NCLB and offers suggestions for improving these systems.
This Powerpoint presentation was shown at the 2002 Large-Scale Assessment Conference. It is a summary of two studies on writing conducted for Pennsylvania. Copies of the full papers on the […]
This presentation at the 2002 CCSSO Large-scale assessment conference discusses issues involved in using alignment studies between standards and assessments, and assessment and accountability decisions, to guide test development.
As is true for most states, Pennsylvania has a process for adjudicating papers when scorers do not agree. This paper explores the amount that scoring accuracy improves when several different […]
Presentation at the 2000 CCSSO Large-scale Assessment Conference; discusses assessments that illuminate instructional decisions by examining how teachers in Kentucky increased their scoring accuracy and their students’ development of writing […]
Ronald Hambleton discusses setting performance standards on assessments and criteria for evaluating the process at the RILS 1999 conference.
Presentation at the 1998 Policy and Practices Forum sponsored by ECS; discusses stakes, student-level reporting, reporting statistic, evaluation design, performance-based assessment, national comparisons, and releasing test questions.