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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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The Operational Best Practices for Accountability

Juan D'Brot
Apr 27, 2022
Accountability

The Operational Best Practices for Accountability are intended to provide states with guidance and criteria for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and potential revision of accountab…

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The Operational Best Practices for Accountability

Juan D'Brot
Apr 06, 2022
Accountability

The Operational Best Practices for Accountability are intended to provide states with guidance and criteria for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and potential revision of accountab…

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Paper

Common Assignment Study and Teacher Effectiveness in Kentucky

Scott Marion
Apr 06, 2022
Student Learning

This paper describes how the Common Assignment Study approach of using common instructional units can support teacher effectiveness and improvement efforts in Kentucky.

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Paper

Technical Advisory Committees: Technical Advice for Challenging Times

Juan D'Brot
Jan 01, 2022
Assessment Systems

In this policy brief, Senior Associate, Juan D’Brot, provides clear recommendations for state leaders about how to learn as much as possible from their technical advisors.

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Assessment Framework Development Processes

Brian Gong
Dec 21, 2021
Assessment Systems

By describing what is to be assessed and how to assess it, assessment frameworks play a pivotal role in testing programs.

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Classroom Assessment Learning Modules

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Assessment Systems

We created a series of learning modules that support the development of educators’ classroom assessment literacy in areas critical to student academic success and reducing achievement gaps.

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Toolkit

Assessing 21st Century Skills

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Educational Measurement

These resources were developed by the Center for Assessment to support best practices related to instructing and assessing 21st century skills – the cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal compe…

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District Assessment System Design Toolkit

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Assessment Systems

Designing a balanced district assessment system is difficult work that requires stakeholders with different levels of responsibility and authority to come to a common understanding about the purpose o…

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Toolkit

Requests for Proposals Toolkit

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Assessment Systems

Writing requests for proposals (RFPs) can be daunting and confusing.

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Toolkit

Assessment Quality Evaluation Methodology

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Large Scale Assessment

These resources were developed by the Center for Assessment to support comprehensive evaluations of standardized assessments measuring college- and career-ready standards relatives to CCSSO’s Cr…

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Toolkit

Text Dependent Analysis Toolkit: Reports from 2015 and 2017

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Student Learning

Text dependent analysis questions were developed for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment in response to the PA Core Standards.

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Toolkit

Text Dependent Analysis Toolkit: Video Modules

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Student Learning

Responding to text dependent analysis questions requires students to “draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

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Toolkit

Text Dependent Analysis Instructional Resources: Replacement Units

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Student Learning

A Grade 4 analysis of text characterization and theme for text dependent analysis replacement units.

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Toolkit

Text Dependent Analysis Instructional Resources: Instructional Plans

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Student Learning

Close reading lessons with comprehension and analysis instructional plans for three texts.

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Toolkit

Text Dependent Analysis Instructional Resources: Prompt Guides

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
Student Learning

Text Dependent Analysis instructional prompt guides based on text dependent analysis learning progressions.

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Toolkit

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

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 13, 2021
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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Toolkit

Student Learning Objectives Toolkit

Center For Assesment Team
Nov 12, 2021
Student Learning

The Student Learning Objectives Toolkit is a resource developed by the Center to help educators map out the process for developing quality SLOs.

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Module

Introduction to Classroom Assessment Literacy Modules

Carla EvansJeri Thompson
Nov 09, 2021
Assessment Literacy

RILS: Leveraging Assessment to Support Teaching and Learning Strand, August 18, 2020…

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