Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Customized Services to Improve Student Learning

When you choose WestEd, you gain peace of mind knowing your student performance measures are fair, accurate, and valid. Our expertise is also highly responsive to local contexts, delivering solutions that address several domains.

WestEd develops comprehensive standards and standards-based assessment and accountability (SAA) systems. We provide specialized guidance designed to help you understand whether your system measures what it is intended to measure, increase systemwide assessment literacy, and ensure your programs, policies, and systems are appropriately aligned to support student learning. We strengthen leadership, capacity, and skills related to critical topics.

  • Alignment Studies
  • Innovative Assessment Solutions
  • Balanced Assessment Systems
  • Accountability Systems
  • Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Evaluations
  • Formative Assessment Solutions

Accountability System Development, Review, and Evaluation

Alignment Studies: Content Standards to Assessments, and Content Standards to Curricula

Assessment and Data Literacy Workshops: Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Teaching and Learning

Assessment Leadership: Leading Assessment Systems that Improve Teaching and Learning

Building Educator Assessment Literacy: Making the Most of Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks to Improve Teaching and Learning – An Online Course

Building Educator Assessment Literacy: Making the Most of Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks to Support Teaching and Learning

Content Standards Review and Revision

Data Analysis and Coaching for Local and State Assessment Data

Developing High-Quality, Multi-Dimensional, Phenomena-Based Science Assessments to Support Teaching and Learning in the Classroom

Developing Student Agency through Collaborative Video-Based Inquiry: Video Study Group

Formative Assessment Inter-Rater Reliability Course

Formative Insights: Assessment for Learning

Introductory Formative Assessment Institute

Leading for Agency

Next Generation Assessment: Early Childhood

Next Generation Assessment: Science

Professional Learning Series to Lead Plan, Observe and Debrief Cycles

State and Local Assessment System Inventories

Student Agency in Learning: Utilizing Formative Assessment Practices for Student Agency

Support for Forming and Launching Technical Committees

VITAL Collaboration: Developing and Revitalizing Professional Learning Communities