The report presents recommendations from the Accountability Redesign Advisory Committee for the redesign of Utah’s School Accountability System.
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The pandemic has changed the accountability landscape. States are experiencing different challenges as they restart their ESSA accountability in 2022.
In the closing session of the 2022 RILS conference, Chris Domaleski summarizes insights from the conference and outlines strategies to address the impact of the pandemic moving forward.
These are the slides that will be used for the end of Day 1 and beginning of Day 2 sessions (RILS 2022).
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the biggest interruption in student education in the history of the United States.
In this RILS 2022 presentation, Miranda McLaren and Debbie Durrence discuss the key impacts that the pandemic had on the Gwinnett County school district in Georgia, which is a large, diverse urban dis…
In this RILS 2022 presentation, Adam Hicks discusses the particular impacts that the pandemic had on the Shelby County school district in Kentucky, which is a smaller semi-urban, semi-rural district s…
In this RILS 2022 presentation, André A.
This RILS 2022 presentation examines the impact of pandemic disruptions on school accountability systems and how states have addressed these challenges.
This session at RILS 2022 focused on the power and potential of formative assessment processes to accelerate student learning.
The pandemic disruptions to schools have had a well-documented effect on student learning.
This report for the Montana Office of Public Instruction outlines the framework for state assessments and informs the process of transitioning to a next-generation assessment system.
This paper describes a set of studies conducted to help understand the effects of pandemic-related disruptions on students’ academic performance during the 2020-2021 academic year in the state of Ut…
This research synthesis is intended to provide the research background for the content and design of the Educator Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Screening Tool.
A series of instructional resources developed to provide educators with guidance on teaching the underlying components of a text dependent analysis question.
Successfully analyzing text, at any grade level, requires more than a lesson that guides students in responding to a text dependent analysis prompt for one particular text.
Text dependent analysis questions were developed for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment in response to the PA Core Standards.
Close reading lessons for comprehension and text dependent analysis.