This paper defines comparability, reviews the literature, and provides recommendations for states when submitting assessments to Title I Peer Review. Created in partnership with Council of Chief State School Officers, […]
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Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Assessment and Accountability Agenda Date/Time Topic August 11, 20203:30 – 5:00pm EDT Assessment for Fall 2020This webinar is based on a paper sponsored by […]
This paper was submitted to the United States Department of Education (ED) in September 2016 as comments on the proposed ESSA federal regulations (§200.77) for the section 1204 Innovative Assessment […]
This peer-reviewed article describes methods that the Center for Assessment tested that strengthen the comparability claims about the annual determinations of student proficiency in New Hampshire’s Performance Assessment of Competency […]
The Center at 20: Leveraging the lessons of the past to improve the impact of assessment and accountability practices Thursday, September 27th Agenda Time Topic 8:30am Welcome to RILSScott Marion, […]
This document helps to reveal and clarify for policymakers many of the issues involved in comparing the performance of students, schools, districts, and states.
This paper examines the differences in the philosophies behind four different school accountability metrics: status, safe harbor (improvement), index, and growth. Using Pennsylvania as an example, the differences in numbers […]
Text complexity is often difficult to describe and even harder to attend to in meaningful ways in large-scale reading assessments. This paper provides a research synthesis that sheds light on […]
This presentation on issues to consider when comparing results across years was delivered at the Council of Chief State School Officers’ Large Scale Assessment conference, Nashville, Tenn., June 2007.
This paper outlines issues to consider when comparing results across years.
Technical Issues Affecting State Accountability Systems October Agenda Session I Reliability: To What Extent Would Accountability Labels and Judgements About Students, Teachers, Schools and Districts Be Replicated if Made Again? […]