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Shepard, Lorrie; Daro, Phil; Stancavage, Frances B. – American Institutes for Research, 2013
"Learning progressions" are one of the most important assessment design ideas to be introduced in the past decade. In the United States, several committees of the National Research Council (NRC) have argued for the use of learning progressions as a means to foster both deeper mastery of subject-matter content and higher level reasoning…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Educational Assessment, State Standards, Academic Standards
Florez, Ida Rose – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2010
The Arizona English Language Learners Assessment (AZELLA) is used by the Arizona Department of Education to determine which children should receive English support services. AZELLA results are used to determine if children are either proficient in English or have English language skills in one of four pre-proficient categories (pre-emergent,…
Descriptors: Validity, Second Language Learning, Cutting Scores, Kindergarten