Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Middle School (6-8)

Let’s Get This Conversation Started: Strategies, Tools, Examples and Resources to Help States Engage with Stakeholders to Develop and Implement their ESSA Plans

Developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers, this publication is designed to guide state education agencies in the development of their ESSA plans. It “provides: — Detailed guidance on stakeholder engagement strategies; — State examples of effective [engagement] strategies; — Stakeholder-specific tactics; — [Engagement] planning templates and tools; — A breakdown of stakeholders [that] states are […]

Council of State Science Supervisors: State Assessment Resources

The Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) is a professional organization made up of science education specialists from states and territories of the United States. The organization provides science education resources, including resources related to assessment and, more specifically, assessment of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Within the Science Education Assessment page, PowerPoint presentations […]

ELA/Literacy Grade-Level Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool-Quality Review (GIMET-QR)

The GIMET-QR is a tool designed by the Council of the Great City Schools to support educators in evaluating the quality of instructional materials available and making evidence-based selection decisions about the suitability of instructional materials under consideration. The tool is organized into grade-level or grade-band documents and is structured to mirror the Student Achievement […]

Mathematics Grade-Level Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool-Quality Review (GIMET-QR)

This evaluation tool offers a way to assess existing grade-level curriculum for alignment with the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, both in terms of content and instructional design. Reviewers are provided with an extensive rubric, the first and largest section of which analyzes several clusters of grade-level content standards (those that are part of […]

Parent Roadmaps to the Common Core Standards – English Language Arts

The parent roadmaps provide guidance for parents about what their children are learning in grades K-8 and high school. It also provides grade-specific questions for parents to ask teachers regarding their children’s progress and grade strategies for parents to use to support their children at home. The roadmaps also display a three-year alignment that includes […]

Attributes of Effective Formative Assessment

From the resource: “This document presents the definition of formative assessment and identifies and explains the five attributes of effective formative assessment. One key feature of this definition is its requirement that formative assessment be regarded as a process rather than a particular kind of assessment. In other words, there is no such thing as […]