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Latest Evidence on the National Staff Development Council's Standards Assessment Inventory (2009)
In 2003, SEDL developed the Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) for the National Staff Development Council (NSDC), based on the NSDC's standards which reflect the theoretical foundations and promising practices in school-based professional development literature. This research brief summarizes SEDL's research and development on the SAI to date, with specific emphasis on its psychometric properties, and presents the latest evidence on how teacher professional development contributes to student achievement. After providing background information on the development of the SAI, this brief presents the current findings on whether identifiable factors emerged from teachers' responses on the SAI and whether teacher assessment of professional development using these factors were related to student learning. The findings are promising and provide researchers and educators more confidence that the SAI measure, when aggregated as a school-level summary variable, is a reliable and valid measure that has demonstrated significant associations with student academic achievement. Taken together, these findings are promising and encourage additional analyses to explore the potential of the SAI measuring a set of educationally meaningful constructs and their relationship to academic achievement of students in predictive models.

Rapid Response: Eighth-Grade Technology Literacy Assessment (2009)
This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to the request, “What are states in the southeastern region using as assessment tools for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) eighth-grade technology literacy?” The SECC conducted a comparative study of 16 states to address the question.

Rapid Response: GED Test and State Assessment Completion for High School Diploma (2009)
This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to a request for information about how many states are allowing high school students who complete the General Educational Development (GED) tests to receive a high school diploma instead of a GED, thereby increasing the high school graduation rates.

Reading Assessment Database for Grades PreK–3 (2006)
This database, a complementary tool to the Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework, enables reading teachers to search for preK–3 reading assessments that test the framework's 14 reading skills.

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