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Direct linkSamuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2013
Champions of students with disabilities have long complained that those students are often an afterthought in state testing plans. Only after a test design is completed are educators asked to go back and adapt the questions for a student who is blind, who needs help accessing text or calculating numbers, or who must use a specialized device to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Testing Accommodations, State Standards
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2013
As test designers work to craft the new, common assessments set to debut in most of the nation's public schools in the 2014-15 school year, their goal is to provide all English-language learners (ELLs), regardless of their language-proficiency levels, the same opportunities to demonstrate their content knowledge and skills as their peers who are…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, English Language Learners, Educational Assessment, Consortia
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2012
An unprecedented assessment project involving half the states is planning a significant shift: Instead of designing one test for all of them, it will offer a choice of a longer and a shorter version. The pivot came in response to some states' resistance to spending more time and money on testing for the common standards. The plan under discussion…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Consortia, Test Construction, Standardized Tests
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2012
As teachers begin shaping lessons for the common standards, many are wondering how to prepare their students for tests that won't be ready for at least two years. Sample items being drafted for those exams offer early ideas of what lies ahead. Two large groups of states are using federal Race to the Top money to create new suites of exams for the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Test Items, Consortia, Item Banks
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2010
Spurred by the promise of $350 million in Race to the Top money for improved tests--as well as an opportunity to strengthen bids for part of the federal fund's larger $4 billion pot--states are scrambling to join consortia to develop common assessments. Six state consortia are now engaged in discussions about common tests, and the multiple…
Descriptors: Consortia, Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Public Agencies
Gewertz, Catherine; Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2010
In a move that could reshape academic assessment in nearly every corner of the country, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $330 million in grants to collaboratives of states to design better ways of measuring student learning. The grants, awarded Sept. 2, went to two groups of states that sought the money under the federal Race to the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Evaluation, Partnerships in Education, Consortia
