Thoughts on What Has Worked Well, What Has Been Less Successful, and Why This post is based on Charlie DePascale’s presentation during Session 1 of the virtual 2021 Reidy Interactive […]
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Compelling Reasons to Think Twice Before Moving 2021 Spring State Testing to the Fall When spring state testing was abruptly canceled last year, one of the first options considered briefly […]
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How We Can Generate Actionable Student-Level Information from the Summative State Assessment While Honoring Their Design This post is based on an invited presentation Charlie DePascale made at the nineteenth […]
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Innovation in Educational Assessment is Messy and May Have a Different Goal Than Stakeholders Would Like This post is the follow-up to my previous post discussing the realities of innovation in large-scale […]
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What Does Innovative Assessment Really Mean, and What Has Recent Assessment Innovation Looked Like? The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) ostensibly offers […]
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The Latest Insights, Innovations, and Ongoing Inquiries in Assessment and Accountability from the Center Team and Our Partners Each June, the Center team and our partners gather with others around […]
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How we can use state assessment effectively to support a K-12 path that leads to postsecondary success Between 2008 and 2010, I made regular trips to Washington, D.C. through Dulles […]
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Current Assessments May Require New Equating Methods and Procedures to Ensure Results Will be Comparable Across Test Forms One of the fundamental tenets of equating two tests is that it […]
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Center Associates Prepare for the NCME and AERA Annual Meetings in Toronto Warmer days, daffodils in bloom, and birds singing can only mean one thing besides the beginning of spring. […]
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The Road From Defining and Measuring Alignment to Effectively Using it in the Design of Assessments and Assessment Systems Alignment turns 25 this year. Happy Birthday, Alignment! Alignment burst onto […]
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Key Takeaways from the Reidy Interactive Lecture Series in its 20th Year Asking what we have learned is a fitting question with which to begin the twentieth convening of the […]
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An Assessment of the Primary Challenges of Using Data in Educational Decision-Making Discussions of data use in schools often lead to two commonly heard refrains: “Educators are drowning in […]
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State assessment teams, assessment industry staff, and other assessment specialists gather each June at the CCSSO National Conference on Student Assessment. Historically, the annual conference provides an opportunity for […]
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This is the first in a series of posts highlighting key pieces of work from the Center’s first 20 years. Each post will feature a document, set of tools, or […]
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The Center at 20: Leveraging the lessons of the past to improve assessment and accountability practices for the future It’s been 20 years, and everyone at The Center for Assessment […]
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