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Los Angeles County Office of Education Performance Task Development Project: A Case Study
This report provides insight into the Performance Task Development Project (PTDP), a partnership between the Building Educator Assessment Literacy (at WestEd) and the Stanford Center...
Selected Alternatives for Assessing College and Career Readiness
This update discusses alternatives to popular summative assessments for college and career readiness. An annotated list of resources and examples is included.
Checking In: Are Math Assignments Measuring Up?
In this report, the focus on is on the role of classroom assignments in a context of increased rigor for daily learning. The report notes...
Teachers’ Use of Kindergarten Entry Assessment Data
This update provides information about the administration and key findings of a survey aimed to understand how New Mexico kindergarten teachers are using data collected...
Integrating Speaking and Listening Standards into Instruction—A Review of Resources
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) sought to provide its member states with guidance in integrating the Speaking and Listening strand of the Common...
Testing College Readiness
Commissioned by the Massachusetts' Executive Office of Education, this study was designed by Mathematica to provide timely, rigorous evidence on how accurately two tests (MCAS...
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes
From the abstract: "There has been perennial interest in personal qualities other than cognitive ability that determine success, including self-control, grit, growth mind-set, and many...
Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability
From the overview: "we call for replacing our current, unbalanced formula of summative assessments and external pressure with a new, more balanced formula for assessment...
Items in Action: Implementing Items in the Classroom – One State’s Perspective (NCSC Writing AA-AAS)
This resource describes Arizona's efforts to change educators' writing expectations and assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities (SWSCD). It describes an initial pilot study and successful...
Multiple Measures for College Readiness
This ECS Education Trends report reviews multiple measures, provides a deeper look at competency-based assessments, and offers policy considerations for state and system leaders. The...