Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

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Strategically Enhancing ELL Access to the Language Demands of College and Career-Ready Standards (Part 1)

This PowerPoint presentation discusses ways of strategically enhancing English Language Learners’ (ELLs) access to the language demands of college- and career-ready standards. The presentation provides a rationale for improved teacher professional development on the language of standards and presents resources that could be utilized by teachers to improve ELL access to the language demands of […]

Framework for High-Quality English Language Proficiency Standards and Assessments

This framework, its accompanying brief, and the one-page overview of criteria were conceived as critical tools for states to use in their efforts to ensure that their English language learner (ELL) students achieve English language proficiency (ELP) at high levels academically. Building on the best knowledge from relevant research and practice, the framework provides criteria […]

CSAI Theory of Action

The nation faces an unprecedented education challenge as nearly all of our states work to implement new and rigorous college and career readiness standards and the innovative assessments designed to measure student learning against these standards. The Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation (CSAI) is a federally funded national center charged with focusing research- and […]

Overview of Major Assessment Types in Standards-Based Instruction

This overview is designed to help state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, educators, partner organizations, and other stakeholders understand the differences between major assessment types in standards-based instruction. Formative, Diagnostic, Interim/Benchmark, and Summative assessments are included. This resource describes how these various assessments differ according to their definition, purpose, format, frequency of administration, and classroom […]

Next Generation Science Assessment Project

The Next Generation Science Assessment (NGSA) team is developing technology-enhanced assessment tasks, rubrics, and accompanying instructional resources in physical science and life science for middle school classrooms. The project aims to create exemplary tasks that can be used during instruction to garner good evidence that students are building proficiency with the NGSS performance expectations.