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The K-12 Center at ETS: Invitational Research Symposium on Technology Enhanced Assessmentss
This Symposium explores current and emerging technologies designed to enhance the measurement, scoring, instructional value, and financial feasibility of next generation assessments. Leading experts will present original papers on topics including: Using technology to expand accessibility and assess hard-to-measure constructs in the Common Core State Standards or National Science Frameworks Our goal is to bring the field together to promote and advance a discussion about opportunities, challenges and solutions to improve K–12 assessment. Design and Development of Technology-Enhanced Assessment Tasks: Integrating Evidence-Centered Design and Universal Design for Learning Frameworks to Assess Hard to Measure Science Constructs and Increase Student AccessibilityAll Videos « RSA Comment
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Research: CBAL ELA Learning Progressions
The Common Core State Standards offers a general roadmap of goals and sequences for the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. However, the Standards was not intended to be the sole source for guiding instruction, assessment and professional development. Rather, one would want to elaborate on the Standards with sound, empirically-based guidance from some 40 years of learning-sciences research. The goal of the CBAL ™ ELA Competency Model and Provisional Learning Progressions is to provide such an elaboration, one that we think can offer new insights into how best to design assessment, instruction and professional development so that they have maximum positive impact. The CBAL ELA Competency Model and Provisional Learning Progressions offers:
State Accountability
An unprecedented confluence of events — increased federal funding, voluntary development of common state standards, increased availability of technology for administering assessments and advances in assessment design — make common state assessments that measure common content standards more likely than ever before. States have formed consortia to compete for Race to the Top Assessment (RTTTA) funding, with the goal of developing a next-generation assessment system. At ETS, we are ready to help in the common assessments initiative with information, research and practical experience in the following areas based on decades of research and development: Two consortia have been awarded funding through the RTTTA competition to design new assessment systems: SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC) .
Common State Assessments