Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: High School (9-12)

Key Elements of a Coherent and Equitable Local Assessment System

State assessments play an important role in monitoring how well schools and districts serve the needs of all learners. However, they are designed to provide comparable information across a state’s schools and districts, not instructional information at the classroom level or guidance about individual students’ learning. This brief is for state and local leaders who […]

Components of a Coherent and Equitable Assessment System

Assessment data have different purposes and uses depending on the interest holders who use the information they generate and whether they are geared toward the classroom, school or district, or at the state level. This handout identifies the key purposes of different assessment types within a coherent and equitable assessment system.

English Learner (EL) Pre-Referral Flow Chart Questions

This decision-making flow chart includes target questions that Child Study teams or MTSS teams should address when working through the pre-referral decision-making process. Each school or district may modify these questions to reflect their own policies and procedures, but the outline of this flow chart provides some key decision points that should be considered when […]

Fundamentals of Learning

This framework outlines three constructs for student learning — how students make meaning, participate and contribute, and manage their learning.

Five Attributes of Self-Assessment

This resource helps teachers plan and implement self-assessment routines, so students can consider their progress in learning new skills and knowledge to determine where they are in relation to the learning goals.