Resources - General Assessment

State Assessment Collaboratives: Lessons from the New England Common Assessment Program, by Jessie Levin (April 2009), from State Innovations, National Association of State Board of Education 


Performance-Based Assessment: Everything Old is New Again  (February 2008) 


The Assessment of 21st Century Skills: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, by Stuart Kahl (June 2008), presented at the 2008 CCSSO Annual Conference 


Measured Progress Joins Partnership for 21st Century Skills (August 2007) 


Innovative Test Yields Innovative Reports (August 2007) 


A Balanced Assessment System: A Different Perspective, by Stuart Kahl (2006), from Education Week 


Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom, by Catherine Garrison and Michael Ehringhaus (2006), National Middle School Association, reprinted in School Connections, Volume 18 No. 2 Fall 2007, A Journal of the College of Education, Kean University, Union, NJ 


More than Paper Load: What Does All This Student Work Tell Us? , by Catherine Garrison (2006), Middle Ground, National Middle School Association, February: 12-15 


Large-Scale Assessment: Choices and Challenges, by Stuart Kahl and Kevin Sweeney (2004) 


Stakes, Mistakes, and Statewide Testing, by Stuart Kahl (2000), from The State Education Standard (Spring 2000): 18-21.

Podcast

NASBE Capitol Hill Briefing on 2009 Study Group Report

Reform at a Crossroads: A Call for Balanced Systems of Assessment and Account-ability (October 2009)

The briefing features Dr. Mariana Haynes, NASBE Director of Research, Dr. Stuart Kahl, CEO, Measured Progress, and Judy Wurtzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education.

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