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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Addressing the Problem With Problems (Part 1)
Searching for Solutions to the Challenges of Education Policy and Practice As H.L. Mencken stated, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” […]
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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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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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Reflections on Large-Scale State Assessment in the Twenty-Tens
What Have We Learned and What’s Ahead? Looking Back at a Transformative Decade in Educational Assessment In considering a decade of large-scale state assessment, I’m reminded of a moment in […]
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Making the Most of the Summative State Assessment
How We Can Generate Actionable Student-Level Information from the Summative State Assessment While Honoring Their Design This post is based on an invited presentation Charlie DePascale made at the nineteenth […]
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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 Accountability: Where Do We Go From Here?
How Can We Focus on Improving Accountability Systems to Improve Student Outcomes? In recent years, assessment and accountability have become charged terms to many. In fact, school accountability systems, influenced […]
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The Center at 20: Reliability of No Child Left Behind Accountability Designs
This is the first in a series of posts highlighting key pieces of work from the Center’s first 20 years. Each post will feature a document, set of tools, or […]
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A Look Back and a Look Ahead After 20 Years of Assessment and Accountability Work
The Center at 20: Leveraging the lessons of the past to improve assessment and accountability practices for the future It’s been 20 years, and everyone at The Center for Assessment […]
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