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Derek C. Briggs – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
This article provides a history of the two large-scale assessment consortia that were funded in 2010 as part of the Race to the Top Competition, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC), and the Smarter-Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). I compare the goals the consortia were funded to meet between 2011…
Descriptors: Consortia, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Mokher, Christine G.; Lee, Steve; Sun, Christopher – Research in the Schools, 2019
We explore the impacts of a Consortium of rural high schools and colleges in Tennessee engaged in partnership activities to improve high school students' college and career readiness. These 29 Consortium schools received support from the federal Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) to scale up local promising practices, including distance and online…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Comparative Analysis, Consortia
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Bennett, Randy Elliot – Review of Research in Education, 2015
On the surface, this chapter concerns the evolution of educational assessment from a paper-based technology to an electronic one. On a deeper level, that evolution is more substantive. In the first section of this chapter, those stages are briefly described and used to place the new generation of assessments being created by the two comprehensive…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Electronic Learning, State Standards, Academic Standards
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Dimacali, Allen M. – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2012
In conjunction with the adoption and subsequent implementation of the "Common Core State Standards for Mathematics" (CCSSM), state-led consortia are developing next-generation assessments aligned to the CCSSM. This paper discusses the progress and plans of two main coalitions of states--the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Alternative Assessment, Test Construction, Testing Programs
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Kepner, Henry S.; Huinker, DeAnn – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2012
The "Common Core State Standards for Mathematics" presents challenges and opportunities to contribute to a common understanding of the mathematical proficiencies expected of our students. This paper discusses the movement to establish multi-state assessment consortia in the United States based in the standards movement set in motion by…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Consortia