Center for Assessment team members write and present extensively on topics relating to assessment and accountability. As part of our mission and in order to increase and improve assessment and accountability practices nationally, we make our guides, presentations, papers, reports and other resources widely available.
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Evidence of Improvement: Guidelines to Inform Exit Criteria for ESSA State Accountability Systems
This paper supported by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) provides guidance to help states develop and validate exit criteria for schools classified as Comprehensive Supports and Improvements (CSI) and Additional Targeted Supports and Improvement (ATSI) required by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Thinking about claims for the Next Generation Science Standards
This paper discusses how the NGSS differ from previous standards, some key structural challenges in designing assessments of the NGSS, and then provides examples of how claims in the form of achievement level descriptors (ALDs) might be formulated.
Authors:
Mary Norris
Brian Gong
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Date:
2019-04-30
The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment: A Policy Brief
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. We also focus on several factors that have served as barriers to the implementation of balanced assessment systems in school districts and states and offer an agenda for advancing practice.
Authors:
Scott Marion
Jeri Thompson
Carla Evans
Joseph Martineau
Nathan Dadey
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Assessment Systems Policy Brief786.22 KB
Date:
2019-04-30
A Tricky Balance: The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment
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 analysis of several factors that have served as barriers to the implementation of balanced assessment systems in school districts and states.
Authors:
Scott Marion
Jeri Thompson
Carla Evans
Joseph Martineau
Nathan Dadey
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A Tricky Balance236.3 KB
Date:
2019-03-13
Establishing Performance Standards for School Accountability Systems
In this paper, Chris Domaleski, Juan D’Brot, and Leslie Keng, outline recommended principles to guide the establishment of a standard-setting process for accountability systems and to describe a framework for implementing standard setting. The principles and framework are based on concepts, approaches, and considerations from establishing performance standards in assessment systems. The authors use two state examples, in partnership with Russel Keglovitz (Nevada) and Ann Michelle Neal (UT), to help make the principles more concrete and steps in the standard setting framework more practical for implementation.
Authors:
Chris Domaleski
Juan D'Brot
Leslie Keng
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Date:
2018-11-14