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A Guide to Understanding and Developing Performance Level Descriptors
This paper describes how performance level descriptors should be developed, contrasts that with current state practice, and discusses the implication […]
April 26, 2007
Designing Content Targets for Alternate Assessments in Science
This PowerPoint presentation, part of a web seminar sponsored by the National Center on Educational Outcomes on Best Practices in […]
March 11, 2007
A Framework for Considering Interim Assessments
Many commercially-available products are being marketed as formative assessments this paper distinguishes between true classroom formative assessment and interim assessments […]
February 12, 2007
Convening an Articulation Panel After a Standard-Setting Meeting: A How-To Guide
The final technical phase in many large-scale assessment standard setting projects, when multiple grades are tested, is the articulation meeting, […]
November 1, 2006
2006 Reidy Interactive Lecture Series
Comprehensive Assessment Systems to Improve Student Learning October 4th-6th Agenda Session I Comprehensive Assessment SystemsStanley Rabinowitz, WestEd Session II Establishing […]
October 6, 2006
Measuring Growth With the MCAS Tests: A Consideration of Vertical Scales and Standards
This paper, prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Education, describes three conceptions of student growth and examines the appropriateness of […]
September 30, 2006
Using Student Longitudinal Growth Measures for School Accountability
There are multiple ways to implement common design decisions for a growth model consistent with the underlying principles of No […]
September 17, 2006
Focusing State Educational Accountability Systems: Four Methods of Judging Quality and Progress
Dale Carlson, a member of the Center for Assessment’s board of directors, outlined a framework in this seminal 2002 paper […]
September 6, 2006
Developing a Value Table for Alaska’s Public School Performance Incentive Program
This paper outlines the process by which Alaska established the Value Table it is proposing for its school performance incentive […]
July 31, 2006
Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning
This presentation, from the Council of Chief State School Officers’ 2006 conference on large-scale assessment, is an overview of the […]
June 25, 2006