Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

Illustrative Mathematics Task Review Criteria

This tool can be used to design lessons and tasks and to evaluate the alignment of existing ones. It was developed for use in vetting resources to be included in the Illustrative Mathematics task bank. Teachers, instructional coaches, and other educators will find it useful for classroom-level use as well. It provides an eight-point system […]

Illustrations and Elaborations of Math Practice Standards

This section of the Illustrative Mathematics website helps teachers become more familiar with standards for mathematical practice in order to integrate these standards effectively into instructional planning at both the lesson and unit levels. The exemplars give teachers a clear sense of what the standards look like in actual classrooms. The exemplars on this site […]

Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning: Instruments

The Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning conducts research and implements best practices in the area of teaching and learning with technology. The institute’s instruments and online data collection systems have been used to gather data from thousands of educators in recent years. They consist of nine student and teacher surveys […]

21st-Century Literacies, Critical Media Pedagogies, and Language Arts

“21st-Century Literacies, Critical Media Pedagogies, and Language Arts” by Dr. Ernest Morrell is an article from The Reading Teacher. Dr. Morrell describes the ways in which the Internet, and the literacies required to navigate it, have changed since the early 1990’s. He argues that teachers need to teach these new 21st-century literacies alongside the literacy skills that are traditionally taught in English […]

The WWWDOT Approach to Improving Students’ Critical Evaluation of Websites

“The WWWDOT Approach to Improving Students’ Critical Evaluation of Websites” by Drs. Shenglan Zhang, Nell K. Duke, and Laura M. Jimenez is an article in The Reading Teacher. The framework encourages students to think about at least six dimensions when evaluating a website: (1) Who wrote this and what credentials do they have? (2) Why was it written? (3) When […]

19 Times Data Analysis Empowered Students and Schools: Which Students Succeed and Why?

Which Students Succeed and Why? This report answers this question by reviewing studies that used educational data to improve and address inequalities in the U.S. educational system. The studies included in this report show how the use of student data is important for students to reflect on their own achievements and future directions, as well […]