The Center has long advocated that schools and districts undertake thoughtful reviews of the assessments they require, so they create a system of assessments that provides the information they need, […]
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It’s never been more important to teach 21st century skills—the cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies that students need to thrive in postsecondary education and the global workforce. But teaching these skills—and […]
This toolkit is designed to provide teachers, curriculum coordinators and school leaders with the information and resources necessary to understand the underlying expectations of text dependent analysis. Additional instructional resources […]
The District Assessment Design Toolkit is designed to help district and school leaders review their ecosystem of assessments in a systematic way. The toolkit consists of a spreadsheet template and […]
Designing a balanced district assessment system is difficult work that requires stakeholders with different levels of responsibility and authority to come to a common understanding about the purpose of an […]
Writing requests for proposals (RFPs) can be daunting and confusing. But a well-written RFP for state assessment services can save the potential client and potential bidders many headaches in preparing […]
These resources were developed by the Center for Assessment to support comprehensive evaluations of standardized assessments measuring college- and career-ready standards relatives to CCSSO’s Criteria for Procuring and Evaluating High […]
The Student Learning Objectives Toolkit is a resource developed by the Center to help educators map out the process for developing quality SLOs. This module contains the following: –SLO – […]
As states and schools begin a transition to the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, they will need to come to a shared agreement on what increased cognitive rigor […]
This toolkit provides a walk-through of the data that’s produced by different assessments, using visuals to explain scoring and how it all fits into the Student Growth Percentile (SGP). This […]