When the federal government created the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) in 2015 as part of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), it was widely hailed as a positive and hopeful ...

The Every Student Succeeds Act was supposed to help states move on from the No Child Left Behind Act, in part by offering fewer and better tests. And to help states with the “better” part of that ...

This post is by Adriana Martinez, the Innovation Program Manager at CCSSO. For years, states have taken the lead in exploring how to create better ways to assess students. In 2016, New Hampshire ...

Georgia and North Carolina have become the latest states to test new ways for assessing student achievement. Both states have received approval from the U.S. Department of Education to take part in ...

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"Test" has become a four-letter word in schools, as many states face political pressure to cut, minimize or deemphasize their much-maligned annual standardized assessments of student achievement. The ...

Across the country, educators and policy makers are searching for ways to develop and implement innovative assessment programs to address accountability requirements and to reform instruction. As both ...

The UCITE Assessment Learning Community (ALC) was offered from 2020 through 2022 as an interdisciplinary group of CWRU teaching faculty colleagues who sought to explore and expand their understanding ...

Our assessment provides the critical insights needed to create a supportive learning environment, helping to fully understand and nurture each child's cognitive strengths and areas for improvement.” — ...

This article originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog, and is reposted here with permission. Clayton Christensen once said, “If we are to develop profound theory to solve the ...