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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...
Guidance for Supporting Assessment Peer Review Submissions
This resource provides an overview of the required evidence states need to submit to demonstrate alignment to the Every Student Succeeds Act's Critical Elements. To...
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...
Council of Chief State School Officers Common Core State Standards: Communications Toolkit
A clear structure for communicating the ongoing benefit of the Common Core is an essential strategy for implementation. This toolkit provides a structure and suggestions...
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.
Ethnic Studies Legislation: State Scan
Reviewing state efforts to develop and implement curricula that reflects and affirms students' racial and ethnic identities, Sylvia Kwon from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center...
WestEd’s Standards‐to‐Standards Alignment and Evaluation Studies
WestEd's content and assessment experts are available to conduct standards-to-standards alignment studies, which provide: findings to meet rigorous evidence requirements, such as federal peer review...
WestEd’s Item‐to‐Standards Alignment Studies
WestEd's content and assessment experts are available to conduct curriculum-to-standards alignment studies, which provide: findings to meet rigorous evidence requirements, such as federal peer review...
WestEd’s Curriculum‐to‐Standards Alignment Studies
WestEd's content and assessment experts are available to conduct curriculum-to-standards alignment studies, which provide: findings on the alignment between local curricula and state content standards,...