More than a dozen states are exploring or piloting through-year assessments to replace their current end-of-year summative test for accountability.
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The pandemic has changed the accountability landscape. States are experiencing different challenges as they restart their ESSA accountability in 2022.
In the closing session of the 2022 RILS conference, Chris Domaleski summarizes insights from the conference and outlines strategies to address the impact of the pandemic moving forward.
These are the slides that will be used for the end of Day 1 and beginning of Day 2 sessions (RILS 2022).
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the biggest interruption in student education in the history of the United States.
In this RILS 2022 presentation, Miranda McLaren and Debbie Durrence discuss the key impacts that the pandemic had on the Gwinnett County school district in Georgia, which is a large, diverse urban dis…
In this RILS 2022 presentation, Adam Hicks discusses the particular impacts that the pandemic had on the Shelby County school district in Kentucky, which is a smaller semi-urban, semi-rural district s…
In this RILS 2022 presentation, André A.
This RILS 2022 presentation examines the impact of pandemic disruptions on school accountability systems and how states have addressed these challenges.
This session at RILS 2022 focused on the power and potential of formative assessment processes to accelerate student learning.
The pandemic disruptions to schools have had a well-documented effect on student learning.
This paper describes a set of studies conducted to help understand the effects of pandemic-related disruptions on students’ academic performance during the 2020-2021 academic year in the state of Ut…
From Session 4 of the 2021 Convening: The final session will involve turning the tables.
From Session 3 of the 2021 Convening: Technical and logistical issues associated with through-year designs are not for the faint of heart.
From Session 2 of the 2021 Convening: Claims are the foundation for design and validation.
From Session 1 of the 2021 Convening: Given the considerable variety of designs using the terms “through course,” “through year,” “distributed assessment,” or others, we start the convenin…
Presentation at the AERA Special Interest Group on School Indicators and Profiles; uses examples from several states to highlight need to disaggregate data to address validity, equity, and improvement…
The purpose of this symposium was to explore a needs-based assessment model approach to identify, support, and sustain the development of K-12 educators’ assessment literacy capacities in ways that …