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What is Text Dependent Analysis?

Teaching students to analyze complex text is crucial in the age of misinformation. Our comprehensive new toolkit on text dependent analysis can help.
June 21, 2023

Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide teachers, curriculum coordinators and school leaders with the information and resources necessary to understand […]
June 20, 2023
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How to Choose Local Assessments

Choosing local assessments can be tricky. A new guide walks district leaders through the questions they should ask and the evidence they should request.
June 7, 2023

Choosing the Right Tests: The District Assessment Procurement Protocol (DAPP)

The District Assessment Procurement Protocol (DAPP) is designed to support school district leaders as they select high-quality assessment products that […]
June 2, 2023
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4 Key Questions States Should Ask About College- and Career-Readiness

States must reconsider their content standards, assessments, and testing practices to keep up with two important trends in college- and career-readiness.
June 1, 2023
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Perfect Test Comparability Is a Sign of Failure

The federal innovative assessment pilot has hobbled the testing improvements it aimed to promote. We can change that by rethinking test comparability.
May 22, 2023
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Tension Between Educational Measurement and K-12 Assessment

There are striking disconnects in our work that can affect the impact our field can have on K-12 learning, educational measurement, and accountability.
May 17, 2023
A bar is going through a ring and on the left side, it is colorful and bright, but on the right side, it is grey to indicate that things that look good may not always be good.

What Happens to Performance Assessment If We Use It for Accountability?

Those who promote using performance assessment for accountability may want to stop and consider exactly what they want to argue for.
May 10, 2023

Through-Year Assessment: Ten Key Considerations (Webinar)

More than a dozen states are exploring or piloting through-year assessments to replace their current end-of-year summative test for accountability. […]
May 10, 2023
A magnifying glass lays on top of what is intended to represent a test. It is magnifying green "plus" signs and red "negative" signs to indicate the importance of evaluating test validity to understand its positive and negative consequences.

Face It: Tests Have Consequences

An assessment’s negative or positive consequences are just as important as other dimensions of assessment quality, and should be part of test validity evaluations.
April 26, 2023
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