professional development

This policy brief outlines key components of providing quality educational opportunites for all students. The paper includes details and specific state examples to illustrate how performance assessments can be used to support and assess how educators meet professional standards for teaching....

This brief outlines how the California's Linked Learning District Initiative is supporting 10 school districts across California. Students enrolled in a Linked Learning pathway enter into a four-year program of study that integrates academic content with technical and 21st century skills within...

This executive summary outlines how New Hampshire will integrate performance assessments into its state assessment and accountability systems.

The proposed performance assessment system will be based on:

1. competencies that provide state-defined learning expectations,

2. a...

This Oregon Essential Skills and Local Perormance Assessment Manual describes the guidelines for Oregon's approach to using locally developed performance assessments to assess student mastery of the state's essential skills framework. In addition, the manual describes how performance assessment...

This paper by Stump and Silvernail examines the early implementation process of proficiency-based education standards in the state of Maine. All schools are expected to establish a proficiency-based diploma system by 2018. Using a two-phase, qualitative approach, findings suggest that benefits ...

The authors of this paper from The Center for Innovation & Transformation in Education, define deeper learning as "directly linked to college- and career-readiness. It achieves this by shifting the focus of education to one in which students: master core academic content; develop the ability...

Understanding Language/Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (UL/SCALE), in partnership with WestEd, invite you to explore a new resource designed to support educators in learning from student work on performance tasks. Understanding Proficiency (understandingproficiency....