Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

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ESSA Requirements Related to English Learners

CSAI presented at the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) Standards, Assessments, and Accountability System Negotiated Rulemaking Committee meeting on state requirements related to English Learners under the Every Student Succeeds Act. In the presentation, CSAI shared federal policy requirements, state implementation examples, and considerations for how the Committee may approach their own decision-making. The meeting […]

Assessing English Learners Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as Amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), includes new provisions that are designed to support ELs’ participation in statewide testing. To facilitate testing of ELs and to support their testing participation, ESSA includes stipulations for states to administer content assessments in languages other than English. ESSA also […]

Supporting Formative Assessment for Deeper Learning: A Primer for Policymakers

This primer argues that effective formative assessment is essential to successfully implementing new college- and career-ready standards. It explains what formative assessment is, how it works in practice, and why it is critically important in fostering powerful pedagogy and 21st-century competencies. It then contrasts the purposes and uses of formative assessment with those of other […]

Understanding the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension

“Understanding the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension” is a curated collection of resources to support educators’ professional learning about online reading comprehension skills and strategies–both how to assess and how to teach these skills and strategies. Researchers at the University of Connecticut created this collection to complement the Online Reading Comprehension Assessment (ORCA) Project, which was funded by […]

Online Reading Comprehension Assessments

Online Reading Comprehension Assessments (ORCA) are tests of students’ abilities to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information that they read online. Funded by a grant from the Institute for Education Sciences, the ORCA Project was a five-year research project to create, study, and validate assessments that educators could use in schools. The research team developed and […]

Calisphere

Taken from the original website: “Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California’s great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 400,000 images, texts, and recordings and counting.”