Research Meetings
The K–12 Center regularly convenes leading measurement experts and practitioners to help advance the state of knowledge and practice to create the "next generation" of comprehensive K–12 assessment systems. After each of these research meetings, we make available a variety of resources from the event, including agendas, summary reports, papers, videos, slides and more.
View our research meetings below. Also see the K–12 Center webinars.
| June 11, 2014 The English-Language Proficiency Assessment Research Working Meeting: Summative Assessments Houston, TX This one-day research meeting brought together more than 70 leaders in the English-language assessment community, and within the four assessment consortia: the two English Language Proficiency (ELP) Assessment Consortia and the two Comprehensive Assessment Consortia. This research working meeting discussed critical emerging technical issues and opportunities to improve the measurement and reporting of English-language proficiency to support improvements in teaching and learning. |
| June 10, 2014 The English-Language Proficiency Assessment Research Working Meeting: Formative Assessments Houston, TX This session focused on formative assessment as a pedagogical process to assist learning that occurs during instruction and actively involves teachers and students (National Research Council, 2012; Heritage, 2013). |
| September 24–25, 2013 Invitational Research Symposium on Science Assessment Washington, D.C. This two-day research meeting brought together more than 250 leaders in science, education and assessment from academia, industry and government, including teams from some 30 states, to explore the skills and competencies called for in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the measurement challenges and opportunities they pose. In a closing webcast, national leaders in science education discussed next steps in policy and practice. |
| May 7–8, 2012 Invitational Research Symposium on Technology Enhanced Assessments Washington, D.C. This Symposium explored current and emerging technologies designed to enhance the measurement, scoring, instructional value, and financial feasibility of next generation assessments. |
| February 10–11, 2011 Invitational Research Symposium on Through-Course Summative Assessments Atlanta, GA Eight assessment experts discussed the measurement opportunities, challenges and potential solutions related to the use of a through-course summative assessment design. Two panels of state and national policymakers discussed the presentations and the R&D agenda ahead. |
| March 8–9, 2010 National Conference on Next Generation K–12 Assessment Systems Washington, D.C. Four sets of nationally renowned educators and measurement experts presented their conceptions of a "next generation" assessment system to fuel the thinking of the Consortia. |
| December 6–8, 2009 Exploratory Seminar on Next Generation K–12 Assessment Systems Princeton, NJ National experts in measurement, growth analysis, learning progressions and teacher development explored and synthesized the current state of the field, the challenges and the most powerful future approaches. |