Can Educational Assessment Improve Teaching?
What Would it Take to Design an Assessment System Around a Goal of Improving Teaching Quality and Teachers’ Knowledge and Skills? How would I design an assessment or assessment system […]
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Do Interim Assessments Have A Role in Balanced Systems of Assessment?
Evaluating Interim Assessments Against the Criteria for Balanced Assessment Systems Interim assessments may have a role in balanced assessment systems, but that role is not conferred by title. It is […]
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Matching Instructional Uses with Interim Assessment Designs
The Importance of Ensuring that an Assessment is Designed to Support its Intended Uses Assessments are the most powerful and useful when designed intentionally for particular purposes – especially when […]
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The Choice is Yours on Interim Assessment
Introduction to the Interim Assessment Identification and Evaluation Process Tool This week, the Center team gathers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with state and local educators, assessment specialists, industry leaders, and […]
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Interim Assessment? Didn’t You Mean Formative Assessment?
Discovering the Need for Clarity on the Use and Effectiveness of Interim Assessments This is the sixth in a series of CenterLine posts by our 2019 summer interns and their Center mentors […]
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Five Essential Features of Assessment for Learning
A Look at Fulfilling Hopes for Innovative Assessments and Instructional Utility It may sound innovative to claim that commercial interim assessments support instruction, but simply saying it doesn’t make it […]
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A Tricky Balance
The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment The seminal publication, Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (NRC, 2001), crystalized the call for balanced systems of […]
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It’s In the Details: Let’s Be Specific About the Uses of Assessment Results
How Assessment Results Can Inform Instruction “We have selected Assessment XYZ to improve teaching and learning in our district.” This is a common refrain heard from many school and district […]
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