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Archives: Informing Current and Future Initiatives

Our resources address key issues in our field to help assessment and accountability leaders, policy makers, and practitioners design and implement systems that promote improved outcomes for students.

We proudly generate white papers, policy briefs, videos, toolkits, and other products to support you and your organization in navigating the most important issues facing our field. We focus on the design and validation of assessment and accountability systems to support next generation  learning initiatives. Our resources are freely available via Creative Commons 4.0 license, which allows users to use, adapt, and/or share the material as needed with proper attribution.

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Deconstructed Standards Leading to Analysis

Jeri Thompson
Mar 14, 2023
Student Learning

Instructing students to successfully demonstrate comprehension and analysis requires deconstructing the underlying knowledge, skills, and patterns of reasoning of grade level standards.

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Paper

Through-Year Assessment: Ten Key Considerations

Nathan DadeyCarla EvansWill Lorié
Mar 10, 2023
Educational Measurement

Through-year assessment is enjoying a surge of attention.

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Paper

Primer on Diagnostic Classification Models (DCMs)

André A. Rupp
Feb 07, 2023
Educational Measurement

This document lays out a few high-level principles and practices around cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) / diagnostic classification models (DCMs) that are commonly of relevance f…

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Paper

Next Generation School Accountability in Utah: A Report of the Utah Accountability Redesign Advisory Committee to the Utah State Board of Education

Scott MarionLillian PaceJulianna Charles BrownLeslie Keng
Nov 23, 2022
Accountability Education Policy Strategic Guidance

The report presents recommendations from the Accountability Redesign Advisory Committee for the redesign of Utah’s School Accountability System.

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Presentation

School Accountability in Flux: Results from a National Survey

Laura PinsonneaultChris Domaleski
Nov 17, 2022
Accountability

The pandemic has changed the accountability landscape. States are experiencing different challenges as they restart their ESSA accountability in 2022.

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Presentation

2022 Reidy Interactive Lecture Series Closing Remarks

Chris Domaleski
Sep 25, 2022
Pandemic Recovery

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.

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Presentation

How do we know – Evaluating Programs

Juan D'BrotChris BrandtScott Marion
Sep 21, 2022
Pandemic Recovery

These are the slides that will be used for the end of Day 1 and beginning of Day 2 sessions (RILS 2022).

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Presentation

Academic Impact and Recovery Conceptualization and Results

Damian Betebenner
Sep 21, 2022
Pandemic Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the biggest interruption in student education in the history of the United States.

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Presentation

Pandemic Impacts and Recovery Efforts: Gwinnett County

Miranda McLarenDebbie Durrence
Sep 21, 2022
Accountability Assessment Lessons Learned Pandemic Recovery Strategic Plan

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…

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Presentation

Pandemic Impacts and Recovery Efforts: Shelby County

Adam Hicks
Sep 21, 2022
Accountability Assessment Lessons Learned Pandemic Recovery Strategic Guidance

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…

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Presentation

District Perspectives on Pandemic Impact and Recovery

André A. RuppErika Landl
Sep 21, 2022
Lessons Learned Pandemic Recovery Strategic Guidance

In this RILS 2022 presentation, André A.

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Presentation

The Role of State Accountability and Reporting to Support Recovery

Chris DomaleskiLaura Pinsonneault
Sep 21, 2022
Accountability Pandemic Recovery

This RILS 2022 presentation examines the impact of pandemic disruptions on school accountability systems and how states have addressed these challenges.

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Presentation

Formative Assessment Processes to Accelerate Learning

Carla EvansJeri Thompson
Sep 20, 2022
Formative Assessment Pandemic Recovery Student Learning

This session at RILS 2022 focused on the power and potential of formative assessment processes to accelerate student learning.

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Presentation

Best Practices in Using Assessments to Monitor and Support the Recovery

Scott Marion
Sep 20, 2022
Assessment Systems Pandemic Recovery Student Learning

The pandemic disruptions to schools have had a well-documented effect on student learning.

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Paper

Assessment Design and Implementation Considerations for the Montana Alternate Student Testing (MAST) Pilot Program

Scott MarionJuan D'BrotChris Brandt
Aug 12, 2022
Assessment Literacy

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.

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Paper

Using Multiple Achievement Measures to Understand the Effects of COVID-19 on Student Learning

Leslie KengScott MarionDan Silver
Aug 09, 2022

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…

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Paper

Research synthesis: Developing the educator assessment literacy professional learning screener

Carla EvansYelisey A. Shapovalov
Aug 05, 2022
Assessment Literacy

This research synthesis is intended to provide the research background for the content and design of the Educator Assessment Literacy Professional Learning Screening Tool.

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Toolkit

Text Dependent Analysis Instructional Resources: Teaching a Text Dependent Analysis Question

Jeri Thompson
Jul 11, 2022
Student Learning

A series of instructional resources developed to provide educators with guidance on teaching the underlying components of a text dependent analysis question.

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