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The California Dashboard and the New Science Indicator – What to Know Now and How to Prepare
Starting with the 2025–26 school year, the California School Dashboard will include a new indicator for student performance on the California Science Test (CAST) summative...
Data-Driven Math Acceleration: Improving Outcomes Through PAUSD’s Standards-Aligned Math Validation Process
In collaboration with WestEd, the Palo Alto Unified School District developed the Math Validation Process (MVP) to assess middle school math acceleartion readiness through a...
A First Look at Early Literacy Performance in Massachusetts
Massachusetts commissioned WestEd to conduct a study of the state's K-3 student reading skills. WestEd's report, authored by Mariann Lemke, Dan Murphy, Aaron Soo Ping...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Making Assessments Accessible for Students With Disabilities and English Learners
Students with disabilities and English learners may receive changes to the test administration so they can show what they know and can do. Tests also...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: What Statewide Assessments Are Designed to Measure
State standardized assessments measure students’ skills and knowledge relative to what students should have been taught during the school year. The scores are used to...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Ensuring That Assessments Accurately Measure Academic Standards
Test developers collect validity evidence to provide support for the interpretations and uses of the test scores. Validity evidence comes from multiple sources including what’s...
Demystifying Statewide Standardized Assessments: Ensuring Comparability Across Administrations
State test scores are valuable because unlike measures such as student grades, they can be directly compared to other students’ scores and across schools or...
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: PreK Assessments/Early Childhood Education
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their PreK assessment portfolios and early childhood education policies since 2019.
K–2 Assessment Systems Enable Early Intervention to Foster Student Success
Across the United States, statewide assessments in English language arts and mathematics are federally mandated each school year in grades 3 through 8 and once...