Score reports are crucial to a through-year assessment system. We interviewed users of Montana’s new system to see how they interpreted and planned to use information from score reports.
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Through-year and other novel test designs face challenges in peer review. Three changes by the U.S. Department of Education could improve the process.
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Many states are considering replacing their year-end tests with through-year assessments. But this change would impact states’ implicit accountability contracts with schools.
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The Center’s latest paper provides sound advice for the states exploring through-year assessment right now, cautioning that this approach comes with serious challenges and tradeoffs.
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Practical Challenges to the Use of Through-Year Assessment for Accountability The interest in using through-year assessment systems in place of traditional end-of-year state summative assessments has been increasing rapidly and […]
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A Focus on Creativity In my recent post, I promised to reveal the type of through year assessment design I’d like to see. After providing some background and context, I provide […]
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It Will Take a Village to Fulfill the Opportunities of Through Year Assessment Systems “Through year” or “through course” assessment systems are rapidly proliferating as an alternative to the single, […]
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Assumptions, Claims, and the Evidence Needed to Support Them Assumptions lead to claims about the types of inferences and uses that an assessment system is intended to support. Strong assumptions […]
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Dissecting the Conundrum of Testing Throughout the Year or Once at the End in a Conversation Between Teacher and Student Various states have advanced through course assessment proposals, in which […]
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An Exploration of Feasibility for a Through Year Assessment System In a past post, I showed the logical conflict that exists for an assessment to claim to provide both end-of-the-year summative […]
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A Through Year Assessment System Cannot Both Portray Summative Student Performance and Purport to be Used to Improve Student Performance in the Short-Term There has been a buzz that “through […]
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