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Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2018
This analysis of college- and career-ready standards implementation is grounded in the policy attributes framework, which states that the more specific, consistent, authoritative, powerful, and stable a policy is, the better implementation will be (Porter, 1994). "Specificity" refers to how extensive, detailed, or prescriptive a policy…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy, State Standards
Dolinsky, Rebecca; Rhodes, Terrel L.; McCambly, Heather – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2016
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) launched Quality Collaboratives (QC): Assessing and Reporting Degree Qualifications Profile Competencies in the Context of Transfer in 2011 as a three-year project that engaged educational, assessment, and policy leaders in student learning outcomes assessment and transfer pathways.…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Qualifications, Benchmarking, Degree Requirements
DeVito, Pasquale J. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to provide information and insight into how state assessment programs are governed, how individual state and state-consortium assessment programs actually operate, and how key policy and technical decisions on these programs are made. To address these issues, this paper is divided into three sections: First, the New…
Descriptors: State Standards, High Stakes Tests, Program Effectiveness, Consortia