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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 Changing Landscape of Statewide Assessment: Shifts towards Systems of Assessments

Brian GongNathan DadeyMichelle BoyerCarla Evans
Aug 24, 2020
Assessment Systems

The landscape of statewide, large-scale educational assessment is shifting away from “stand-alone” summative assessments and towards integrated sets of assessments designed to support various inte…

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Presentation

Symposia: Application of Needs-Based Models to Support Sociocultural Approaches to Improving Educators’ Assessment Literacy

Carla EvansErika LandlJeri Thompson
Oct 22, 2021
Assessment Literacy

The purpose of this symposium was to explore a needs-based assessment model approach to identify, support, and sustain the development of K-12 educators’ assessment literacy capacities in ways that …

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A Sociocultural Approach for Building Classroom Assessment Literacy Across Multiple Contexts

Scott MarionNathan DadeyCarla EvansKadie WilsonJeri Thompson
Sep 18, 2019
Assessment Literacy

This presentation illustrates how the Center for Assessment uses Lave and Wenger’s (1991) concept of “legitimate peripheral participation” in our work to improve assessment literacy at scale.

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A Tricky Balance: The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment

Scott MarionJeri ThompsonCarla EvansJoseph MartineauNathan Dadey
Mar 13, 2019
Assessment Systems

The paper, presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, presents a discussion of design considerations for balanced systems of assessment as well as an in-depth…

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Definitions, Aims, and Use Cases

Will LoriéNathan DadeyBrian GongScott Marion
Nov 15, 2021
Assessment Systems

From Session 1 of the 2021 Convening: Given the considerable variety of designs using the terms “through course,” “through year,” “distributed assessment,” or others, we start the convenin…

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Paper

A Rapid Review of Interim Assessment Use

Nathan DadeyCalvary Diggs
Sep 16, 2019
Interim Assessment

This rapid review of twenty studies examines and characterizes interim assessment use.

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Paper

Developing Scale Scores & Cut Scores for On-Demand Assessments of Individual Standards

Nathan DadeyLeslie Keng
Apr 16, 2018
Interim Assessment

This work examines how scale scores and cut scores can be developed for a set of thirty one interim assessments.

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Paper

Innovative Assessment and Accountability Systems that Support Continuous Improvement under ESSA: Practical Considerations and Early Research

Carla Evans
Jun 29, 2018
Large Scale Assessment

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) addresses concerns about the effects of high-stakes achievement tests by authorizing a pilot program that allows up to seven states to apply for a waiver from fed…

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Presentation

Considering the Design and Role of Interim Assessments in the Context of a Next Generation Science Standards System of Assessments

Nathan Dadey
Oct 08, 2018
Interim Assessment

This presentation defines and explores interim assessment designs used by states to support districts, then examines one state’s efforts to develop an interim assessment system based on the Next Gen…

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Planning for Design Innovation: Assessment Systems & Theory of Action

Erika LandlNathan Dadey
Sep 23, 2021
Assessment Systems

From Session 4 of RILS 2021: In this session, we use a theory of action framework as a tool for structuring, communicating, and implementing balanced assessment systems.

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Paper

Guidance for Examining Disproportionality of Student Group Participation in Alternate Assessments

Chris DomaleskiCarla Evans
Aug 01, 2019
Alternate Assessment

The purpose of this brief is to examine disproportionality with respect to student group participation in Alternate Assessments aligned with Alternate Academic Achievement Standards (AA-AAAS).

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Paper

Assessment Framework Development Processes

Will LoriéBrian 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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Paper

The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment: A Policy Brief

Scott MarionJeri ThompsonCarla EvansJoseph MartineauNathan Dadey
Apr 30, 2019
Assessment Systems

This policy brief summarizes our paper, presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, on the design considerations for balanced systems of assessment.

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Paper

Comparability in Balanced Assessment Systems for State Accountability

Carla Evans
Dec 31, 2017
Educational Measurement

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&#821…

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Paper

The Marginal Utility of Interim Assessments for Prediction

Nathan Dadey
Jul 01, 2017
Interim Assessment

One key selling point for interim, or benchmark, assessments is that their scores are generally highly predictive of scores on large-scale summative assessments.

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Paper

Annotated Assessment Peer Review Guidance

Joseph MartineauNathan Dadey
Nov 20, 2015
Educational Measurement

In 2015, the Center for Assessment worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop this document annotating the assessment peer review guidance as of that time.

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Paper

Making Sense of Spring 2021 Assessment Results

Nathan Dadey
Mar 17, 2021
Large Scale Assessment

The Center for Assessment produced this document to help state assessment leaders and technical advisors plan for and conduct analyses of their spring 2021 state assessment results in order to evaluat…

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Paper

How Systems of Assessments Aligned with Competency-Based Education Can Support Equity

Scott MarionCarla Evans
Jan 01, 2020
Assessment Systems

This paper, by the Center for Assessment and the Aurora Institute, presents a vision and discusses requirements for balanced systems of assessments that can support competency-based education models a…

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