Right-Sizing ESSA Accountability
States can create an accountability mix that right-sizes federal requirements and their own priorities, by blending or separating the two.
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How Do State Leaders Want to Change the Every Student Succeeds Act?
ESSA is widely criticized, but our new survey shows that most assessment and accountability leaders favor few changes.
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You Can Get the Accountability System You Want (Part 2)
States complain that ESSA bars them from getting the accountability systems they really want. We present three examples of systems that show otherwise.
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You Can Get the Accountability System You Want (Part 1)
States can have the school accountability systems they value by minimizing the footprint of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Do We Really Need to Test All Students Every Year?
We can reduce testing in schools without sacrificing meaningful annual reports on students’ learning.
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Can We Reduce Testing in K-12 Schools?
State testing has long been criticized for many reasons. We undertook a study to examine what tradeoffs might be necessary to reduce the footprint of state testing. Here’s a preview of our early findings.
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Reframing Accountability: Build Closer Connections Between School Identification and School Improvement
States can better support school improvement by building stronger connections between accountability design and school improvement.
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Student Growth Measures for Accountability: No, You Don’t Need a Vertical Scale
Student growth measures for accountability do not require a vertical scale and, in fact, may be hampered by one.
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Mobility Matters When Designing More Equitable School Accountability Systems
Hear from a Center intern on his work studying performance mobility in contemporary school accountability systems.
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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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Rebuilding School Accountability One Step at a Time
The Process of Restarting Accountability Systems Will be Incremental, Not Immediate As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to subside in the United States, it may be reasonable to expect some education […]
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Letting Go of Labels in School Accountability Systems
How the Next ESEA Reauthorization Can Improve Federal Accountability Requirements The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which is the current reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), contains federal accountability requirements […]
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Accountability as a Roadblock to Assessment Reform
Advocating for Changes to Federal Accountability Requirements to Enable Innovative Assessment Many of us at the Center for Assessment have led assessment reform for decades, including such noteworthy programs as […]
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The Future of Statewide Summative Tests: Avoid False Dichotomies
Currently, three states have publicly announced their intention to pursue a waiver from federal testing requirements for the 2020-2021 academic year. In a few other states, there appears to be […]
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The Outlook for ESSA School Accountability After COVID-19
A Return to the Status Quo is Unlikely and That’s Just Fine For those hoping for minimal disruption to ESSA school accountability, I have bad news and more bad news. […]
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A Path Forward: Recommendations for ESEA Reauthorization to Support Improvements in Assessment and Accountability
Starting a Discussion on How Federal Policy Can Better Support Innovation to Increase Student Learning Opportunities Here at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, we think a […]
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The Reality of Innovation in Educational Assessment (Part 1)
What Does Innovative Assessment Really Mean, and What Has Recent Assessment Innovation Looked Like? The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) ostensibly offers […]
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Improving Equity: Understanding State Identification Systems under ESSA
Creating a Framework to Help Describe Differences in How States Identify Schools for Support and Improvement This is the second in a series of CenterLine posts by our 2019 summer interns and […]
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