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Assessment Evaluation Tool (AET)

Developed in partnership with Achieve, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and the Council of Great City Schools (CGCS), the Assessment Evaluation Tool...

2017 • General Topics: Program Evaluation, Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Topics • Assessment Topics: Assessment Design & Development, Coherent Assessment Systems • Resource Type: Toolkit • Grade Levels: Elementary School (K-5), Grades 6-8, High School (9-12), Middle School (6-8)
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Lesson Planning Guide, ELA, Grade 6

Lesson Planning Guide, ELA, Grade 6

Sample formative assessment lesson plan planning guide for English Language Arts, Grade 6.

2016 • General Topics: Communication, Professional Learning • Resource Type: Guidance • Grade Level: Grades 6-8
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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...

2015 • General Topics: Professional Learning, Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Topics • Assessment Topics: Assessment Literacy, Assessment Research & Innovation, Competency- & Performance-Based Assessment, Formative Assessment • Resource Type: Guidance • Grade Levels: Elementary School (K-5), Grades 6-8, High School (9-12)
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Instructional Alignment as a Measure of Teaching Quality

Article abstract: "Recent years have seen the convergence of two major policy streams in U.S. K-12 education: standards/accountability and teacher quality reforms. Work in these...

2014 • General Topics: Data Use for Learning & Improvement, Professional Learning, Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Topics • Resource Type: Guidance • Grade Levels: Elementary School (K-5), Grades 6-8, High School (9-12)
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Leading a Standards-Based System: Aligning Policy to Standards

Leading a Standards-Based System: Aligning Policy to Standards

In this policy brief, Robert Hull (director of NASBE's Center for College, Career, and Civic Readiness) presents components that state boards of education need to...

2014 • General Topics: Policy, Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Topics • Assessment Topic: Coherent Assessment Systems • Resource Type: Guidance • Grade Levels: Early Learning, Elementary School (K-5), Grades 6-8, High School (9-12), Middle School (6-8)
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Judging Student Achievement: Why Getting the Right Data Matters

No Child Left Behind offers a useful framework for thinking about the kinds of data needed to identify students having difficulty meeting standards and to...

2005 • General Topics: Data Use for Learning & Improvement, Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Topics • Grade Levels: Elementary School (K-5), Grades 6-8, High School (9-12), Middle School (6-8)
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