States are increasingly interested in conceptualizing, defining, and assessing what are often called 21st century skills or deeper-learning competencies. This paper explores the conceptualizations, definitions, and understandings in the research […]
Topics: Professional Learning
This presentation illustrates how the Center for Assessment uses Lave and Wenger’s (1991) concept of “legitimate peripheral participation” in our work to improve assessment literacy at scale.
This paper reviews the literature on assessment literacy and builds a conceptual framework for defining and guiding future work on assessment literacy. The framework presents assessment literacy as a context […]
This 2012 NCME presentation provides an introduction to recent national educational policies and identifies associated measurement issues and other implications that graduate students and new measurement professionals should be aware […]
This document helps to reveal and clarify for policymakers many of the issues involved in comparing the performance of students, schools, districts, and states.
The research for this article goes beyond the typical readability formulas used in test and textbook development. Factors that influence increasing text complexity are identified and text descriptors for grades […]
A second presentation by Richard Hill to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Institute on data-driven decision making.