This brief addresses key questions related to the requirements and implications of the Every Student Succeeds Act provision related locally-selected, nationally-recognized high school assessments.
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This paper provides guidance to help state education leaders develop an implementation plan to address the provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act on locally-selected, nationally-recognized high school assessments.
This paper examines the conceptual and practical challenges in developing a system of interim assessments that produces a single summative score for accountability purposes, in line with that detailed in […]
This paper, written with colleagues at the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), is designed to help states wrestle with the challenges of flexibility associated with high school assessment […]
This white paper provides an overview of key considerations associated with including indicators of progress in English language proficiency within ESSA systems of accountability.
This paper describes the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) regarding the indicator for student success and school quality—often called the 5th indicator—and offers advice to states on […]
This paper was submitted to the United States Department of Education (ED) in September 2016 as comments on the proposed ESSA federal regulations (§200.77) for the section 1204 Innovative Assessment […]
This memo to U.S. Education Secretary John King was jointly prepared by the Center for Assessment and KnowledgeWorks in March 2016 to advise on the implementation of the Innovative Assessment […]
In 2015, the Center for Assessment worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop this document annotating the assessment peer review guidance as of that time. […]
The brief paper helps to contextualize the Common Core State Standards as the next step in a 30-year history of standards-based educational reform.
In this invited presentation to the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association conference, Gong traces different definitions of success for all from a measurement perspective, including the current challenges posed […]
This 2012 NCME presentation provides an introduction to recent national educational policies and identifies associated measurement issues and other implications that graduate students and new measurement professionals should be aware […]
This presentation at the CCSSO Large-scale Assessment Conference examined the federal No Child Left Behind accountability requirements from the perspective of the design principles outlined in a recent publication by […]
This document presents an elaborated framework, a concise checklist, and examples to assist states and others in the design, modification, or analysis of school accountability systems. The document was developed […]
A presentation to the U.S. Department of Education, sponsored by Council of Chief State School Officers. It provides a framework of design characteristics for school accountability systems and provides examples.
This presentation at the 1998 Policy and Practices Forum sponsored by Education Commission of the States discusses stakes, student-level reporting, reporting statistic, evaluation design, performance-based assessment, national comparisons, and releasing […]