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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…
This paper describes how the Common Assignment Study approach of using common instructional units can support teacher effectiveness and improvement efforts in Kentucky.
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.
By describing what is to be assessed and how to assess it, assessment frameworks play a pivotal role in testing programs.
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.
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…
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…
Writing requests for proposals (RFPs) can be daunting and confusing.
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…
Text dependent analysis questions were developed for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment in response to the PA Core Standards.
Responding to text dependent analysis questions requires students to “draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
A Grade 4 analysis of text characterization and theme for text dependent analysis replacement units.
Close reading lessons with comprehension and analysis instructional plans for three texts.
Text Dependent Analysis instructional prompt guides based on text dependent analysis learning progressions.
A series of instructional resources developed to provide educators with guidance on teaching the underlying components of a text dependent analysis question.
The Student Learning Objectives Toolkit is a resource developed by the Center to help educators map out the process for developing quality SLOs.
RILS: Leveraging Assessment to Support Teaching and Learning Strand, August 18, 2020…