State of the States Brief: Assessments
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their assessment portfolios since 2019.
State of the States Brief: Standards
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their K-12 content standards (in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) since 2019.
State of the States Brief: High School Graduation Requirements
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their high school graduation requirements since 2019.
The Formative Assessment Practices Landscape for Students with Disabilities: An Analysis of State Definitions and Practices, 2021
This report outlines the approaches that state education agencies (SEAs) have taken in defining and using formative assessment practices, including practices to explicitly support students with disabilities. At the state level, there have been efforts to develop or adopt formal definitions of formative assessment practices that guide how these practices are used in instruction. Given […]
Spring 2021 Performance on Three Locally Determined Assessments in California
As part of the technical assistance provided by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center at WestEd (R15 CC) to the California State Board of Education (SBE) and California Department of Education (CDE) staff, a request was made to the R15 CC to gather data from three selected testing publishers that had supported the administration of spring […]
Scaffolding Writing With the “Teaching and Learning Cycle” for Students in Grades 6–12
Reading critically involves examining the language choices authors make to “get the job done” — in other words, to communicate effectively in specific ways with particular audiences. Not all students in middle and high school intuit this type of reading and may experience challenges when they go to write for academic purposes. Their teachers are […]