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A Look Back and a Look Ahead After 20 Years of Assessment and Accountability Work
The Center at 20: Leveraging the lessons of the past to improve assessment and accountability practices for the future It’s […]
July 16, 2018
Accountability Implementation: An Introduction to the Operations, Performance Standards, and Evaluation Resources
This paper highlights critical areas where states are poised to examine practice and collect evidence to support the development of […]
June 30, 2018
Accountability Identification Is Only the Beginning: Monitoring and Evaluating Accountability Results and Implementation
This paper describes a framework to help states systematically evaluate school-identification decisions. The authors present example claims, guiding questions, and […]
June 30, 2018
Innovative Assessment and Accountability Systems that Support Continuous Improvement under ESSA: Practical Considerations and Early Research
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) addresses concerns about the effects of high-stakes achievement tests by authorizing a pilot program […]
June 28, 2018
The Need for Program Evaluation to Support Accountability Implementation
Even the Best Designs Still Have a Burden of Proof Accountability systems are supposed to incentivize behavior that promotes equity […]
June 27, 2018
It’s In the Details: Let’s Be Specific About the Uses of Assessment Results
How Assessment Results Can Inform Instruction “We have selected Assessment XYZ to improve teaching and learning in our district.” This […]
June 14, 2018
Following Their Lead: Some Thoughts About Student-Led Assessment
Student-led assessment has become the umbrella term for describing the range of approaches by which students are involved in collecting […]
June 14, 2018
Assessment Flexibility for States Under ESSA
Highlights From New Hampshire’s Innovative Assessment Application New Hampshire was one of three U.S. entities that submitted an application for […]
June 14, 2018
Maaps Project Update: Providing a Comprehensive Picture of School Quality and Success
A Comprehensive Picture of School Quality and Success Over the past year and a half I have had the pleasure […]
June 13, 2018
Validating a New Instrument to Examine K-12 Competency-based Education Implementation
Competency-based education (CBE) reform has become a priority in many local and state education agencies. An oft-cited goal of CBE […]
June 1, 2018