portfolio

A district’s graduate profile organizes a comprehensive range of expectations for student learning into a clear, cohesive vision of college and career readiness. By starting with the end in mind—a high school graduate who is prepared for postsecondary learning and the 21st-century workplace—a...

This FairTest report describes how states can overhaul their assessment systems under the Innovative Assessment pilot program in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).  It shows policymakers how to:

• develop assessment systems that minimize standardized testing;
• enhance
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This research paper finds that teacher candidates’ Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) scores, a performance assessment that measures their capabilities as future teachers, are significant predictors of their later teaching effectiveness as measured by their students’...

This brief outlines how the Envision Schools Charter Management Organization and the Stanford University School Redesign Network have collaborated to design a set of performance-based assessments for high school students that are both rigorous and credible, and are designed to build students’...

This resource provides a detailed guide on how to train teachers to formally score student performance assessment work that has been submitted for a grade, as a part of graduation portfolio requirement, for a diploma endorsement, or as part of a college application (summative purposes...

"This Danville Diploma specifies 10 essential experiences and competencies that we want to ensure for each student. Each student will collect evidence demonstrating his/her progress toward reaching each of the competencies in a digital portfolio beginning in the early elementary grades. Students...

Rhode Island has implemented a statewide diploma system to ensure access for all middle and high school students to rigorous, high quality, personalized learning opportunities, and pathways.

Minimum requirements for earning a Rhode Island high school diploma:

• Demonstrated
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"At Envision Schools we are focused on rigor. By rigor we mean complexity: the ability to conduct research, perform inquiry, express oneself creatively, and engage in analysis...

The College Success Portfolio Defense is our capstone activity. It is the final inquiry, the final essential...