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Case Reviews: Implementing the Spirit of Formative Assessment
The following resource provides vignettes about teachers who are attempting to implement formative assessment in their schools. The two vignettes are from a study by...
Refining Statewide School Accountability Systems: Lessons From Innovative State Approaches Under ESSA
Over the past two decades, federal education policies such as the No Child Left Behind Act and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) have sought...
Educational Alignment: Past, Present, and Potential Future (Part 1)
To ensure that accurate inferences of student learning are made, the alignment of learning standards, instruction, and assessments is critical. Educational systems benefit from alignment...
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...
State of the States Brief: High School Graduation Requirements
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their high school graduation requirements since 2019.
State of the States Brief: Standards
This brief highlights changes that states have made in their K-12 content standards (in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies) since 2019.
Digital Professional Learning for K–12 Teachers: Literature Review and Analysis
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers' work has had to shift to online spaces, requiring learning to be adapted to different mediums. Changes in...
Expanding California Districts’ Curriculum-Focused Professional Learning
As part of efforts to inform California education leaders about key policy topics impacting California schooling, California Analysis for Learning and Engagement has developed a...
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...
What California Teachers are Saying About Their Instructional Materials for English Learner Students
As part of efforts to inform California education leaders about key policy topics impacting California schooling, California Analysis for Learning and Engagement has developed a...