Common Core

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Education Policy Analysis Archives, Jobs for the Future
David Conley
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In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote student achievement while simultaneously meeting system accountability needs.  This article presents a vision for a new system of assessments, one designed to support the kinds of ambitious teaching...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Jobs for the Future
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...

State Examples
California Collaborative on District Reform, American Institutes for Research
Joel Knudson
Stephanie Hannan
Jennifer O’Day
Marina Castro
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Authored by Joel Knudson, Stephanie Hannan, Jennifer O’Day, and Marina Castro, this brief charts the lessons from the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) of the early 1990s that can inform state efforts to assess new college- and career-ready standards. The CLAS included performance...

Mathematics
Institute for Mathematics and Education
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In the broadest sense, learning progressions describe how students’ learning typically develops across and within domains of mathematics. In this way, learning progressions can help teachers to understand the learning experiences that could support individual and groups of students in making...