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Student Engagement in Assessments: What Students and Teachers Find Engaging

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Soung Bae
Kari Kokka
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The goal of this study is to provide guidance to educators, assessment developers, and policymakers on how to increase student engagement in performance-based assessments. This report takes up this challenge by examining how students and teachers conceptualize and recognize engagement features...

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Preparing High School Students for College Success - Preliminary Findings

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Envision Schools, Stanford University School Redesign Network
Ruth Chung Wei
Bob Lenz
Ethan Wolfe Ris
Raymond L. Pecheone
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Envision Schools uses performance assessment as a key tool for supporting student learning. In this graduate follow-up study, Envision Schools puts its model of “Rigor, Relevance, Relationships, and Results” to the test, examining the results of a longitudinal tracking study to measure the...

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Deeper Learning Research Series: Equal Opportunity For Deeper Learning

Equity Issues
Jobs for the Future
Pedro Noguera
Linda Darling-Hammond
Diane Friedlaender
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This paper makes a compelling case for “student-centered” practices in the nation’s high schools. The paper does not offer a prescriptive agenda.  But the authors do argue, and the evidence strongly suggests, that students benefit when given ample opportunities to:  

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