Publications for K–12 Educators and Policymakers

2015

April 2015
Slides from NCME Session Psychometric Considerations for the Next Generation of Performance Assessment (slides, PDF): Charlene Tucker, Chair (The K-12 Center at ETS), with presentations by Steve Ferrara (Pearson), Tim Davey (Educational Testing Service), Noreen M. Webb (University of California, Los Angeles) and Lauress L. Wise (Human Resources Research Organization), and comments by Ronald K. Hambleton, (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Coordinated session conducted at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago.

January 2015
Psychometric Considerations for Performance Assessment with Implications for Policy and Practice (PDF): by Charlene G. Tucker, Measurement Consultant, for the K–12 Center at ETS, based on the paper Psychometric Considerations for the Next Generation of Performance Assessment. This brief summarizes the work of the distinguished panel of authors, and provides 10 recommendations for policymakers and practitioners as they seek to integrate performance assessment into state K–12 assessment systems.

December 2014

NEW Next-Generation Summative English Language Proficiency Assessments for English Learners: Priorities for Policy and Research (PDF).

June 2014

Science Assessment Update for The National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA) (PDF): This presentation was developed to respond to questions from the NSELA concerning guidance for states working on development of assessments aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.

The English-Language Proficiency Assessment Research Working Meeting: Summative Assessments: A collection of eight slide presentations from a research meeting that discussed critical emerging technical issues and opportunities to improve the measurement and reporting of English-language proficiency summative assessments.

Supporting the Achievement of English Language Learners Through Formative Assessment: A presentation by Margaret Heritage of CRESST/UCLA.

March 2014

Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards, March 2014 (PDF)

February 2014

Convenient one-page summaries and illustrations of each of the six multistate assessment consortia: PARCC (PDF), Smarter Balanced (PDF), DLM (PDF), NCSC (PDF), ASSETS (PDF), ELPA21 (PDF)

June 2013

Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards, Updated June 2013 (PDF)

Seeing the Future: How the Common Core State Standards Will Affect Mathematics and English Language Arts in Grades 3–12 Across America (PDF)

March 2013
Brief 4-page Overview of the PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessment Systems (PDF)

August 2011
Let's Talk About It! PowerPoint Presentation on the New Common Core State Standards Assessment Systems

July 2011
The Assessment Consortia: Summaries and At-a-Glance Graphic Illustrations

July 2011
Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards

June 2011
Summaries of the Supports and Resources to be Provided to Educators by the Consortia

May 2011
Putting the Pieces Together: Summary Report of the Invitational Research Symposium on Through-Course Summative Assessments (PDF)

September 2010
Trends in U.S. Achievement 1990–2010: A Data Profile (PDF)
Prepared for the Business Roundtable by the Center and the ETS Research and Development Division

March 2010
A Fresh Start: Creating the Next Generation of Assessment Systems (PDF)
This summary report of the National Conference on Next Generation Assessment Systems appeared in Education Week on April 28, 2010.