This paper defines comparability, reviews the literature, and provides recommendations for states when submitting to Title 1 Peer Review. Created in partnership with CCSSO, this document provides information and advice […]
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From Session 4 of the 2021 Convening: The final session will involve turning the tables. Center for Assessment professionals and some external experts will be invited to do short presentations […]
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 CCSSO-sponsored paper focused […]
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 […]
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 (SCASS) defines comparability, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. Using Pennsylvania as an example, the differences in numbers […]
This paper outlines issues to consider when comparing results across years.
This presentation on issues to consider when comparing results across years was delivered at the CCSSO Large Scale Assessment conference, Nashville, TN, June 2007.
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 shedding light on the […]
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? […]
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 method, and […]
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 comparing accountability reliabilities, influence […]
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 (Collaborating District A, Grades […]