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Content Assessment Aligned to the Common Core State Standards: Improving Validity and Fairness for English Language Learners
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Chia, Magda Y. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) serves over 19 million primary, middle, and high school students from across 26 states and affiliates (Smarter Balanced, n.d). As one of the two Race to the Top (RTT)-funded assessment consortia, Smarter Balanced is responsible for developing formative, interim, and summative…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, English Language Learners
Testing to the Top: Everything But the Kitchen Sink?
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Dietel, Ron – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Two tests intended to measure student achievement of the Common Core State Standards will face intense scrutiny, but the test makers say they will include performance assessments and other items that are not multiple-choice questions. Incorporating performance items on this tests will bring up issues over scoring, costs, and validity.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, State Standards, Test Construction, Intellectual Property