Shifts in Student Enrollment: Should They Affect Test Score Interpretations?
Schools that experience pronounced enrollment shifts should consider their impact when interpreting achievement patterns over time.
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Using Formative and Large-Scale Assessment as Part of a Comprehensive Recovery System
It’s time to focus on the role of formative and large-scale assessment in student learning recovery efforts.
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Reflecting on Lessons Learned in Assessment and Accountability in Education in 2022
Scott Marion reflects on what we have learned after another year of recovery after COVID’s interruptions to assessment and accountability in education.
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Can We Stop Obsessing About the Effects of Remote Instruction on Student Learning?
Let’s start talking about student learning recovery and stop focusing on the impact of remote instruction during the pandemic.
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The Pandemic has Changed the Accountability Landscape
We explore what a national survey tells us about the pandemic impact on accountability systems and how states can prepare for the future.
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New NAEP Scores Don’t Support Political Arguments
The release of the 2022 NAEP scores gives us plenty to discuss as they reflect the devastating effects of COVID-19 on student achievement.
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Large-Scale Assessment and Learning to Love Uncertainty
Measuring post-COVID student learning recovery with large-scale assessment draws focus on how we make sense of test scores.
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Understanding Pandemic Impact and Addressing Recovery
Our 2022 Reidy Interactive Lecture Series focused on how we can better address the pandemic impact on student learning.
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Recovery, Stabilization, or Continued Decline as We Emerge from the Pandemic
Assessment results in 2022 can tell us a lot about where learning stands, but only if presented correctly for accurate comparisons.
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Assessment and Accountability to Monitor and Support Learning Recovery
The 2022 Reidy Interactive Lecture Series will focus on learning recovery post-COVID and the role of assessment and accountability.
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Selecting the Right Assessments to Monitor School Recovery from the Pandemic
Your assessment selection can ensure you can monitor recovery efforts and confirm evidence of learning progress following the pandemic.
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Monitoring COVID Recovery Efforts
It’s critical that educators use the right educational assessment tools to understand and overcome challenges related to COVID recovery.
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Supporting A Principled Approach to Restarting School Accountability in Spring 2022
Operational Best Practices for Accountability Recently, my colleague Chris Domaleski reminded us of the complexity associated with restarting school accountability in Spring 2022. It is unlikely that this problem will […]
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Comparisons Matter: Considering What Recovery Is
Now is the Time to Begin Preparing for the Reporting of Spring 2022 Assessment Results The question about the pandemic impact has largely been answered – it’s bad (e.g., Betebenner et […]
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Accountability Doesn’t Need to Be Restarted. It Needs to Be Revised!
Making the Case for a New Approach to Federal School Accountability The U.S. Department of Education followed an all too familiar pattern of publishing important guidance just before the Christmas […]
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Charting a Course for School Accountability in 2022
Navigating Federal Requirements In the midst of the holiday season, the U.S. Department of Education (USED) released a draft FAQ addressing the requirements for school accountability in 2022 under ESSA. We […]
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Oh, What a Year…Again
Responding to Assessment and Accountability Challenges During an Ongoing Pandemic I titled my 2020 year-end CenterLine post, “Oh, What a Year!” with hopes that we were turning the pandemic corner. […]
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Break the Glass and Pull the Alarm! The Signal From Spring 2021 State Testing Is Clear
A Call to Policymakers to Support Multi-Year Acceleration Efforts I and many others were concerned that the uncertainty with interpreting Spring 2021 state summative test scores because of all the […]
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