Reaching the Goal: The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness
This examines the degree to which the knowledge and skills contained in the Common Core State Standards are applicable to and important for postsecondary readiness. The method required postsecondary instructors from a wide range of postsecondary courses and institutions to rate each CCSS standard...
Performance-based Assessment: An International Perspective (video file)
This 2008 presentation addresses international practices of performance-based assessment and how these practices compare with assessments in the United States.
Has Progress Been Made in Raising Achievement for English Language Learners?
This report examines the progress in raising achievement for English language learner (ELL) students, and it describes the factors that make it difficult to accurately assess what ELL students know and can do. The Center on Education Policy, an independent nonprofit organization, with technical...
Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
Data Wise provides a toolbox of information pertaining to data-use and assessment practice. Following the "Data Wise Improvement Process," the book provides strategies to help schools organize and use data to improve student learning. The strategy can help organize assessment projects for...
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Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards
This guide focuses on the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), which formally began in June 2009 as a collaborative effort among nearly all U.S. states and territories. Forty-five states subsequently adopted the CCSS in mathematics and English language arts (ELA) and joined one of two...
Strength in Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems
This report and accompanying webinar explore the costs of assessment systems currently used in different states and the potential financial savings involved in using collaborative assessments such as those being developed by the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment consortia.
Putting the Pieces Together: Summary Report of the Invitational Research Symposium on Through-Course Summative Assessments
This report summarizes expert presentations and discussions about through-course summative assessments being developed by the two Common Core State Standards (CCSS) consortia. The presentations and discussions took place during the 2011 Invitational Research Symposium on Through-Course Summative...