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Creating Systems of Assessment for Deeper Learning

State Examples
Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) Stanford Center For Opportunity Policy In Education (SCOPE)
David Conley
Linda Darling-Hammond
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In this paper, David Conley and Linda Darling-Hammond describe how two multistate assessment consortia are being designed to measure how well students achieve the goals of the Common Core State Standards. As planned, the new consortia assessments should be a significant advance over most states...

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Performance Assessments For Learning: The Next Generation of State Assessments

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Ruth Chung Wei
Susan E. Schultz
Raymond L. Pecheone
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With the goal of re-envisioning the state’s assessment and accountability system to support improvements in the rigor and quality of curriculum and instruction, to help students prepare for college, and to signal college readiness and careers, Ohio developed an assessment and standardized ...

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A New Era for Educational Assessment: Executive Summary

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
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David Conley
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In this paper, David T. Conley, well-known for his influential research on college readiness, draws on a wealth of recent research to argue that the time is ripe for a major shift in educational assessment, from an over reliance on standardized tests of math and reading, which tell us little...

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Consequences and Validity of Performance Assessment for English Language Learners: Integrating Academic Language and ELL Instructional Needs into Opportunity to Learn Measures

Equity Issues
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
Zenaida Aguirre-Munoz
Christy Kim Boscardin
Barbara Jones
Jae-Eun Park
Marjorie Chinen
Hye Sook Shin
Janet Lee
Anastasia Aimee Amabisca
Aprile Benner
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The primary focus of this study was to investigate process and content opportunities that are particularly relevant to improving English Language Learner (ELL) achievement with particular attention to the relationship between opportunities to acquire academic language and ELL achievement on...

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Performance Assessments for English Language Learners

Equity Issues
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Jamal Abedi
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This paper, discusses limitations with the standardized achievement tests currently used for ELLs and share information on how performance assessments can be efficiently used to lead to better understanding of these students’ content knowledge and to improve their academic performance.  

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Getting to Higher-Quality Assessments: Evaluating Costs, Benefits, and Investment Strategies

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Barry Topol
John Olson
Ed Roeber
Pat Hennon
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As policymakers consider the costs of new assessment systems, it is important to understand the costs of existing testing systems that have evolved at the local as well as state levels, currently pointed at improving performance on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) summative tests. To examine these...

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