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The Costs and Benefits of Using Tests that Help Students Learn

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Linda Darling-Hammond
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This paper by Linda Darling-Hammond outlines how states can achieve the goal of making high-quality assessments both affordable and feasible to implement while strengthening teaching and learning at the same time. States that seek such a system can achieve their goals by:

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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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