This paper defines comparability, reviews the literature, and provides recommendations for states when submitting to Title 1 Peer Review.
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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 Hampshire̵…
From Session 4 of the 2021 Convening: The final session will involve turning the tables.
Part 1: Challenges From Session 6 of RILS 2021: The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority under the Every Student Succeeds Act was purportedly created to provide space for states to design and…
This paper was submitted to the United States Department of Education (ED) in September 2016 as comments on the proposed ESSA federal regulations (§200.
This report, commissioned in 2016 by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) Technical Issues In Large-Scale Assessment (TILSA) State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCAS…
Developed for CCSSO, this white paper provides an overview for policy-makers of the reasons why score comparisons across assessments are especially important now and what is likely to be possible and …
This document helps to reveal and clarify for policymakers many of the issues when it comes to 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.
This presentation on issues to consider when comparing results across years was delivered at the CCSSO Large Scale Assessment conference, Nashville, TN, June 2007.
This paper outlines issues to consider when comparing results across years.
Text complexity is often difficult to describe and even harder to attend to in meaningful ways in large-scale reading assessments.
This paper, delivered at the annual AERA Conference in 2002, outlines issues related to the reliability of accountability systems, describes methods used to calculate reliability, proposes a new metho…
This paper presents the issues of reliability from the RILS 2001 conference, including relationship between test score reliabilities and reliability of school accountability decisions, statistics for …
Validity study that compares the relationships between performance on the Massachusetts Assessment System (MCAS) and other tests scores with a commercial, standardized test in one district (Collaborat…