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Science is Coming to the California Dashboard
This essential guide for California assists educators in preparing for the integration of science performance data into the California School Dashboard. Starting with the 2025...
Kindergarten Entry Assessments: An Examination of Best Practices, National Trends, and Recommendations
States and districts use Kindergarten entry assessments (KEA) as evaluative tools for understanding students' learning along developmental domains. Data from KEAs are informative for guiding...
Key Characteristics of a Coherent and Effective Local Assessment System
State assessments play an important role in monitoring how well schools and districts serve the needs of all learners. However, they are designed to provide...
Components of a Coherent and Equitable Assessment System
Assessment data have different purposes and uses depending on the interest holders who use the information they generate and whether they are geared toward the...
English Learner (EL) Pre-Referral Flow Chart Questions
This decision-making flow chart includes target questions that Child Study teams or MTSS teams should address when working through the pre-referral decision-making process. Each school...
Kindergarten Readiness Assessments Help Identify Skill Gaps
Researchers have long traced achievement gaps in the elementary years back to readiness gaps at the start of kindergarten. Educators seeking to address these gaps,...
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...
Scaffolding Writing With the “Teaching and Learning Cycle” for Students in Grades 6–12
Reading critically involves examining the language choices authors make to “get the job done” — in other words, to communicate effectively in specific ways with...
Strong Professional Learning Systems for Math Instruction in California: What Do We Know Today?
The coming months are an opportune time to reexamine the professional learning infrastructure around math teaching in California. In addition to the re-conceptualized instructional guidance...
Making Decisions Using Assessment Data in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed all aspects of teaching and learning over the past two school years. Consequently, administration of summative assessments in spring 2021...