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Since 2001, federal laws such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004 have made raising student achievement standards the center of our national conversation. Consequently, educators have increasingly turned their attention to exploring the potential of formative assessments as one approach to increasing student outcomes in order to meet federal and state accountability requirements.
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.
In this edition of the eBulletin, we highlight the issues of raising standards, ensuring access to rigorous curricula and assessments, and ensuring that every child is both work and college ready upon graduation. With the increased emphasis placed on these issues in recent years through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and through a growing body of research in this area, our nation is actively addressing the issues of college and work readiness.
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.
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.
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.
The National Staff Development Council (NSDC) contracted with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) to develop a new NSDC standards assessment instrument. This request was in response to a series of questions over the years about the psychometric properties of the old instrument and NSDC’s desire to update it. SEDL’s Evaluation Services (ES) agreed to develop a reliable and valid staff development assessment instrument aligned with NSDC’s standards for quality professional development. The instrument is to be completed by teachers and other school staff and is intended to measure the degree to which a school’s professional development program adheres to the standards.
This issue of Quick Takes, a newsletter exploring reform issues in math and science education, examines math and science assessment.
This is a list of assessment resources for Native American Learners.
Making Assessment Work for Everyone: How to Build on Student Strengths (2000)
This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective.
This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective.
This two-volume resource for trainers contains findings and approaches to blending assessment with instruction to improve student learning.
This issue of Classroom Compass, a newsletter for teachers, focuses on assessment as an integral part of the learning cycle.
