Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Early Learning

Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners

How can formative assessment enhance the teaching and learning of English language learner (ELL) students? What, if anything, from our experience with summative assessment of ELL students can inform effective formative assessment practices? And finally, what are the opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating formative assessment into instruction for ELL students in this era of […]

Uncommonly Engaging? A Review of the EngageNY English Language Arts Common Core Curriculum

This resource reports on a review of the EngageNY ELA curriculum. It asks the questions, “Is it a high-quality product? Is it well aligned to the Common Core? Is it teachable?” It provides an in-depth review of EngageNY’s alignment to the CCSS ELA standards by grade band along the following dimensions: Text complexity, quality, and balance Evidence-based […]

Foundations for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework

There is a growing recognition that strong academic skills alone are not enough for young people to become successful adults, and this comprehensive report offers wide-ranging evidence to show that what young people need to develop from preschool to young adulthood to succeed in college and career are factors related to non-cognitive, or social and […]

SEL Assess Resources

The University of British Columbia (UBC), with the support of the Edith Lando Charitable Foundation, has created a “Social & Emotional Learning Resource Finder,” a searchable collection of SEL resources for educators and adults who work with students. Within this site, there is a curated selection of SEL assessment resources (the link to this sub-collection is found […]