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Alabama’s State Assessment System: Recommendations from the Assessment Task Force
Juan D’Brot and Scott Marion led an Assessment Task Force for the Alabama State Department of Education to help create […]
April 30, 2018
Building a Conceptual Framework for Assessment Literacy
This paper reviews the literature on assessment literacy and builds a conceptual framework for defining and guiding future work on […]
April 30, 2018
What’s Wrong with High School Testing and What Can We Do About It?
Scott Marion discusses the challenges and issues associated with current high school testing models and offers some thoughts about how […]
April 23, 2018
Developing Scale Scores & Cut Scores for On-Demand Assessments of Individual Standards
This work examines how scale scores and cut scores can be developed for a set of thirty one interim assessments. […]
April 15, 2018
The Opportunities and Challenges of a Systems Approach to Assessment
Scott Marion offers a commentary on papers by Mark Wilson and Lorrie Shepard and colleagues in a special issue of […]
March 24, 2018
Alabama Assessment Task Force Briefs
The Center has developed a series of briefs to support Alabama’s Assessment Task Force as the panel makes decisions for […]
January 15, 2018
Comparability in Balanced Assessment Systems for State Accountability
This peer-reviewed article describes methods that the Center for Assessment tested that strengthen the comparability claims about the annual determinations […]
December 30, 2017
Predictive Validity and the Impact of CAEP Standard 3.2: Results From One Master’s-Level Teacher Preparation Program
This peer-reviewed study, originally prepared for the University of New Hampshire’s Education Department, investigates the predictive validity and policy impact […]
December 30, 2017
Use of the “Equity Indicator” in State ESSA Accountability Systems
Scott Marion argues on behalf of several states for a principled approach to using an equity indicator in their ESSA […]
December 26, 2017
The Use of Achievement Indices in State Accountability Systems Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Scott Marion provides a rationale for states interested in using an achievement index in their ESSA accountability system designs.
December 25, 2017