What Can Professional Football Teach Us About the Responsible Use of Tests?
The NFL’s use—and misuse—of test scores in the draft highlights a few important lessons we should apply to educational assessments.
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Trying to Serve Multiple Uses with Through Year Assessments
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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Considering Coherence in the Collection and Use of Opportunity-to-Learn Data
Ensuring Equitable Learning Opportunities for all Students Requires Coordination Across the Education System This is the second post by one of our 2021 summer interns based on their project and the assessment […]
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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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When It Comes to Getting Summative Information from Interim Assessments, You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too,” is a well-known idiom. In the case of educational measurement, it reflects the dilemma posed by a requirement for a single, […]
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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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