Houston, I Think We Might Have a Problem One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and yet expecting different results. Recently, I have been […]
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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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Evaluating Grade 8 Student Achievement Outcomes for the NH PACE Program, an Innovative Assessment System This is the third in a series of posts by our 2020 summer interns and their mentors […]
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Innovation in Educational Assessment is Messy and May Have a Different Goal Than Stakeholders Would Like This post is the follow-up to my previous post discussing the realities of innovation in large-scale […]
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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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The Challenge in Trying to Be Innovative Under ESSA’s Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority I was an early supporter and promoter of the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), […]
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Student-led assessment has become the umbrella term for describing the range of approaches by which students are involved in collecting and evaluating evidence of their learning. This contrasts with more […]
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