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50-State Analysis of the Prepartion of Teachers and the Conditions for Teaching: Results from the NCES Schools and Staffing Survey
As part of the CCSSO efforts to report on indicators of education quality in our public schools, we have conducted an analysis of data from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). …
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A Framework for Examining Validity in State Accountability Systems
Without validation evidence for their accountability systems, states would be unable to effectively defend against lawsuits, likely lose credibility among their stakeholders, and almost cert …
Categories: Literature Review, Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

A Guide to Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) Systems
This guide is intended to provide those responsible for procuring CAT systems with questions they can use to tease out differences across competing CAT delivery systems to make better-inform …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

A Practitioner’s Introduction to Equating with Primers on Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
There are a number of substantive and technical issues involved in equating and many potential pitfalls. This handbook was written for assessment practitioners working in state departments o …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

A Quiet Crisis (Early Childhood) Policy Statement
A quiet crisis is threatening the future of America. Deeply rooted achievement gaps and shortfalls, and a lack of high-quality early learning opportunities compromise the potential of too ma …
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A Review and Empirical Comparison of Approaches for Improving the Reliability of Objective Level Scores
This paper addresses the psychometric issues associated with estimating objective level scores, often referred to as subscores. The paper introduces the concepts of reliability and validity …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report | Type: Publication

A Review and Empirical Comparison of Approaches for Improving the Reliability of Objective Level Scores
This paper reports on an evaluation of the psychometric issues associated with estimating objective level scores, often referred to as 'subscores.' Methods for increasing the reliability of …
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Accommodations Manual - How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate Use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities
The Accommodations Manual: How to Select, Administer, and Evaluate Use of Accommodation for Instruction and Assessment of Students with Disabilities presents a five-step process for Individu …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Accommodations Professional Development Guide
This publication provides a foundation and context for the use of accommodations by students with disabilities. When students have engaged in standards-based instruction with support provide …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Addressing Two Commonly Unrecognized Sources of Score Instability in Annual State Assessments
Phillips contends that there are two unrecognized sources of error variance in statistics based on state testing data that contribute to score instability: (a) increased error due to samplin …
Category: Research Report | Type: Publication

Addressing Two Commonly Unrecognized Sources of Score Instability in Annual State Assessments
The work reported in this paper reflects a collaborative effort of many individuals representing multiple organizations. It began during a session at the October 2008 meeting of TILSA when a …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report, Case Studies | Type: Publication
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Alignment and the States: Three Approaches to Aligning the National Assessment of Educational Progress with State Assessments, Other Assessments, and Standards
This report will help states understand three alignment approaches: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI) Procedural Manual; t …
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Alignment Content Analysis of NAEP 2009 Science Assessment with the methodology of Surveys of Enacted Curriculum
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) conducted an alignment content analysis of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress Reading and Science Assessments administere …
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Alignment Content Analysis of TIMSS and PISA Mathematics and Science Assessments Using the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum Methodology
Through the SEC Collaborative, CCSSO conducted an alignment content analysis of the 2007 TIMSS Mathematics and Science education assessments for students at grades 4 and 8 and the 2006 PISA …
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An Analysis of Accommodations Issues from the Standards and Assessments Peer Review
Second in a series of three publications for states addressing accommodations and students with disabilities. This publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the peer review guidance i …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report, Case Studies | Type: Publication

Assessing Students' Affect Related to Assessment for Learning
Teachers who currently implement AFL have no systematic way of discerning the affective impact of this approach on their students. In an effort to provide teachers with tools for tracking st …
Categories: Literature Review, Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Assessing Students with Disabilities: A Glossary of Assessment Terms in Everyday Language
This glossary provides an update to the 2003 glossary designed to provide user-friendly definitions of critical assessment terms. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Attributes of Effective Formative Assessment
This brief paper describes five key attributes that have been identified from the literature as critical features of effective formative assessment. …
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Building an Interim Assessment System: A Workbook for School
The 2008 publication and the companion workbook (2010) provide a definition and corresponding framework for a thorough, district-level self-examination of readiness for the development or ac …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Building an Interim Assessment System: A Workbook for School Districts
This workbook contains the vision, infrastructure, and resource questions critical to a thorough, district-level self-examination of readiness for an interim assessment system. Staff at stat …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Chiefs’ Pocket Guide to Class Size: A Research Synthesis to Inform State Class Size Policies
A guide to make sense of current and historical class size research literature for use by Chief State School Officers and state education agnecy staff …
Category: Topical Research Summary | Type: Publication
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Chiefs’ Research Primer: Measures of Effective Teaching study on teacher observation
A summary of Measures of Effective Teaching’s (MET) findings in "Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observations with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains," 2012. …
Category: Research Primer | Type: Publication
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Closing the Gap in Reading and Math: NAEP Trends Show Significant Positive Effects for Almost Half the States
CCSSO has analyzed the state-level NAEP trends (available from the U.S. Department of Education online through the NAEP Report Card, A valid and useful method of applying state-level student …
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Closing the Gap in Science Achievement: Using NAEP Science Assessment Scores to Analyze State Trends
Since the 1990s, CCSSO has analyzed and reported state-level National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) trends using the student scores by state from one year’s assessment and compar …
Type: Publication

Common Core State Standards: Implementation Tools and Resources
CCSSO developed this list of tools and resources to point states to promising practices and tools to support Common Core State Standards implementation. This document primarily lists resourc …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication
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Common Core State Standards: State Spotlights
CCSSO has developed this list of state spotlights to facilitate networking among states and to highlight state implementation work. It is intended to be a quick reference document to support …
Category: Topical Research Summary | Type: Publication
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Commonly Unrecognized Error Variance in Statewide Assessment Programs: Sources of Error Variance and What Can Be Done to Reduce Them
This report summarizes the Phillips’ work on commonly unrecognized sources of error variance (or random variations in assessment results) and provides actions states can take to identify and …
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Confronting the Quiet Crisis: How Chief State School Officers are Advancing Quality Early Childhood Opportunities
This report shows how chiefs in five states led efforts to expand and improve early learning opportunities. …
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Connecting High-Quality Expanded Learning Opportunities and the Common Core State Standards to Advance Student Success
This brief explores ways to strengthen ELOs by building their connection to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. …
Categories: Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

Consistency for State Achievement Standards under NCLB
This paper provides suggestions and recommendations to state departments and state policy makers for setting consistent standards across grade levels. An argument is made that the new requir …
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Content and Instruction in Focus
The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum will pinpoint how instruction aligns with content by to guide users to answer critical questions. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Creating Aligned Standards and Assessments
This paper provides a discussion of lessons learned in addition to suggestions and recommendations to state departments and state policy makers for revising academic content standards in a m …
Type: Publication

Determining Adequate Yearly Progress in a State Performance or Proficiency Index Model
The purpose of this paper is to present an overview regarding how several states use a performance or proficiency index in their determination of adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the No …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report, Case Studies | Type: Publication

Developing Alternate Assessment Technical Adequacy (DAATA)
The DAATA Handbook is a state resource for evaluating and documenting the technical quality of alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with signi …
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District Audit Tool
This paper includes methods for states to diagnose district functioning in research-based dimensions that correlate to positive student achievement gains on standards-based assessments. …
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Does Teacher Professional Development Have Effects on Teaching and Learning? Analysis of Evaluation Findings from Programs for Mathematics and Science Teachers in 14 States
CCSSO conducted a study of teacher professional development programs in mathematics and science through a grant from the National Science Foundation. …
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Educare: Re-envisioning Education Beginning at Birth
This issue brief, written for education and state policy leaders, provides a detailed description of the Educare early childhood model. …
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Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World
This publication of CCSSO and the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning puts forward a new definition for global competence and explores how to infuse the capacities of global compete …
Type: Publication

Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008 as Adopted by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration
This document represents the latest set of high-level policy standards for education leadership. It provides guidance to state policymakers as they work to improve education leadership prepa …
Type: Publication

Effects of Teacher Professional Development Gains in Student Achievement: How Meta Analysis Provides Evidence Useful to Education Leaders
CCSSO was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a meta analysis study with the goal of providing state and local education leaders with scientifically-based evidenc …
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ELDA Brochure
A brochure for the ELDA product. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Evaluating the Comparability of Scores from Achievement Test Variations
In 2006, a consortium of state departments of education, led by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the Council of Chief State School Officers, was awarded a grant from t …
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Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Policy Statement
Since 1998, CCSSO has researched and developed activities to build state capacity to support the growth, implementation, and sustainability of high-quality ELOs. This policy statement, which …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Formative Assessment and Next-Generation Assessment Systems: Are We Losing an Opportunity?
With this publication, CCSSO seeks to illuminate and enrich the discussions around student assessment and help lead the development of more effective ways to assess student learning. These d …
Category: Literature Review | Type: Publication
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Formative Assessment: Examples of Practices
The purpose of this document is to provide examples of the FAST SCASS definition of formative assessment in practice, according to the attributes of effective formative assessment. …
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Framework for English Language Proficiency Development Standards corresponding to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards
The ELPD Framework outlines the underlying English language practices found in the CCSS and the NGSS, communicates to ELL stakeholders the language that all ELLs must acquire in order to suc …
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards
A frequently asked questions document on the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards …
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Global Education Policy Statement
More than ever before, students from around the globe are learning to adapt to change and to capitalize on expanding opportunities to become multilingual and learn to use mathematics, scienc …
Type: Publication

Growth Model Comparison Study: A Summary of Results
This paper is a summary of the Goldschmidt multi-state study (2012) and is intended to provide timely and comprehensible information for practitioners and other stakeholders who may not have …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report | Type: Publication

Growth Model Comparison Study: Practical Implications of Alternative Models for Evaluating School Performance
This paper reports on an empirical study that compared the results of applying nine different analytic growth models to a large multi-state longitudinal data set (four consecutive years divi …
Category: Research Report | Type: Publication

Guide to United States Department of Education Growth Model Pilot Program 2005-2008
This report summarizes the U.S. Department of Education growth model pilot program from its inception through the conclusion of the pilot period when the growth model program was opened up t …
Categories: Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

Hints and Tips for Addressing Accommodations Issues for Peer Review
First in a series of three publications for states addressing accommodations and students with disabilities. This publication is a quick reference for states preparing for peer review. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

How to Use SEC Charts to Compare Common Core State Standards with prior State Standards
In 2010, the CCSSO Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) State Collaborative conducted a content analysis of the new Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics. Now, …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Implementer’s Guide to Growth Models
This document discusses the theoretical and practical issues states will face as they design and implement statewide achievement growth models to be used with accountability systems. Example …
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Improving Accommodations Outcomes: Monitoring Instructional and Assessment Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
Third in a series of three publications for states addressing accommodations and students with disabilities. This publication provides a comprehensive professional development guide for stat …
Categories: Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

Innovate to Educate: System [Re]Design for Personalized Learning - A Report from the 2010 Symposium
On August 4-6, 2010, CCSSO, ACSD, and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) convened 150 education thought leaders, practitioners, and technology providers in Boston, Massac …
Category: Research Report | Type: Publication

InTASC Model Core Standards At a Glance
This resource is a handy reference sheet listing all 10 InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue (April 2011) on two pages. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards 2011 MS Word Version
InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards (2011): MS Word Version of Standards Text Only …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue (April 2011)
The standards represent clear expectations about what all teachers should know and be able to do if they are going to improve achievement for our next generation of students. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication
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InTASC Research Summaries by Standard
InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards Research Studies Templates by Standard 2011 …
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InTASC Research Synthesis
InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards Research Synthesis 2011 …
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Interim Assessment Practices and Avenues for State Involvement
To help describe the range of recent practice in the use of "interim assessments" (medium-scale, medium cycle assessments), this study employed a case-study approach. This report profiles se …
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Interim Assessment Practices and Avenues for State Involvement – Appendices
This is a companion piece to the study summarizing the findings from case-studies profiling seven jurisdictions that administer, or support the use of, interim or benchmark assessments. Det …
Categories: Literature Review, Case Studies | Type: Publication

Key Elements for Educational Accountability Models
The purpose of this report is to summarize the work that had been done prior to 2008 on developing a set of standards for a good/valid accountability system. In addition, this paper describ …
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Key Elements for Educational Accountability Models in Transition: A Guide for Policymakers
State educational accountability models are in transition. Whether modifying the present accountability system to comply with existing state and federal requirements or anticipating new ones …
Categories: Research Report, Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

Key State Education Policies on PK-12 Education: 2008
This CCSSO report informs policymakers and educators about the current status of key education policies across the 50 states that define and shape elementary and secondary education in publi …
Type: Publication

Learning About Assessment: An Evaluation of a Ten-State Effort to Build Assessment Capacity in High Schools
In 2006, the State of Delaware and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) partnered with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) to conduct an evaluation of a ten- …
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Learning About Assessment: Evaluation of a Ten-State Effort to Build Assessment Capacity in High Schools
In 2006, the State of Delaware and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) partnered with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) to conduct an evaluation of a ten- …
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Learning Progressions: Supporting Instruction and Formative Assessment
This paper describes the characteristics of learning progressions and how they can support teachers' use of formative assessment. The paper was commissioned and supported by the FAST SCASS. …
Categories: Literature Review, Case Studies | Type: Publication

Lessons Learned: Implementing and Improving Comprehensive and Balanced Learning and Assessment Systems in High School - A Report for State Education Leaders - Final Report from the Delaware Enhanced Assessment Grant
The Delaware Enhanced Assessment Grant project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education as an initiative to assist 10 state departments of education teams, and local school district an …
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Literature Review for the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards (2011)
The purpose of the literature review is to a) identify areas within the updated InTASC standards that are supported by empirical evidence and b) identify areas within the standards that are …
Category: Literature Review | Type: Publication

Making Decisions:Transition from State Standards to Common Core Standards
Since the beginning of the standards-based movement under the Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) continuing through the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), national ob …
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Mathematics & Science Education Task Force Executive Summary, 2006
The CCSSO Mathematics and Science Education Task Force convened to address a common set of concerns regarding the condition of mathematics and science education on the United States. …
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Mathematics & Science Education Task Force Recommendations, 2006
In May 2006, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) President Valerie Woodruff and the Board of Directors commissioned the creation of a mathematics and science education task force …
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Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue
These standards are an initial effort to articulate, through the lens of the teacher, what effective teaching and learning would look like. …
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Moving Forward with Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Efforts
This paper provides guidance developed by CCSSO's Early Childhood Education Assessment State Collaborative on the assessment of young children at the start of formal schooling. …
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Operational Best Practices for Statewide Large-Scale Assessment Programs
In June 2006, the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) began discussions to identify and publish a set of voluntary, non-regulatory bes …
Categories: Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

Our Responsibility, Our Promise: Transforming Educator Preparation and Entry into the Profession
Our Responsibility, Our Promise: Transforming Educator Preparation and Entry into the Profession was written by a CCSSO task force composed of current and former chief state school officers, …
Category: Research Report | Type: Publication

Partnership for Next Generation Learning Overview
Over the past two years, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has been engaged in an intensive effort to chart a course to transform our public education system. To bring this …
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Performance Counts Assessment Systems that Support High Quality Learning
This white paper describes what a student assessment system could look like if built from the principles and best practices found in current educational research and effective educational sy …
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Performance Expectations and Indicators for Education Leaders for Education Leaders
The Performance Expectations and Indicators for Education Leaders were developed by members of SCEL and funded by their state participation fees. We would like to thank the representatives o …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Policy Statement on ESEA Reauthorization
This policy statement presents a vision for a “new deal” to guide reauthorization of the Elementary & Secondary Education Act (ESEA). States must continue to lead the way with bold, thoughtf …
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Policy Statement on School Health
The education community must look beyond standards setting and systems of accountability and join with public- and private sector mental health, health, and social services providers to addr …
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Policymakers’ Guide to Growth Models for School Accountability: How Do Accountability Models Differ?
The purpose of this paper is to define the key differences between the statistical models that can be used for school accountability and to examine the various factors important in making de …
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Principles and Processes for State Leadership on Next-Generation Accountability Systems
These principles serve as the framework for the design of new accountability systems and each state will build upon these principles to develop its own unique system that best fits its speci …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Quality Assurance Practices Associated with Producing Cohort Graduation Rates
This paper is the second in a series exploring methods of implementing quality assurance practices in statewide accountability systems and focuses on the calculation of cohort graduation rat …
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Quality Control Checklist for Item Development and Test Form Construction
This checklist has been developed for use by state education agency staff to review developed test items and test forms submitted by vendors or item development committees. This checklist ca …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Quality Control Checklist for Processing, Scoring, and Reporting
This checklist is appropriate for use with high-stakes tests as well as most other types of assessments and focuses on the quality control procedures for processing, scoring, and reporting. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Research-based Practices for Creating Access to the General Curriculum in Mathematics for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities
Review of literature and research regarding research-based practices in mathematics for students with significant intellectual disabilities. …
Categories: Literature Review, Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Research-based Practices for Creating Access to the General Curriculum in Reading and Literacy for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities
Review of literature and research regarding research-based practices in reading and literacy for students with significant intellectual disabilities. …
Categories: Literature Review, Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Research-based Practices for Creating Access to the General Curriculum in Science for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities
Review of literature and research regarding research-based practices in science for students with significant intellectual disabilities. …
Categories: Literature Review, Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Roadmap for Next-Generation State Accountability Principles
The Roadmap for Developing Next-Generation Accountability Systems (Roadmap) starts to operationalize the principles. It presents a vision for next-generation accountability systems to suppor …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

State Assessment Program Item Banks: Model Language for Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Contracts
This document provides recommendations for request for proposal (RFP) and contract language that state education agencies can use to specify their requirements for access to test item banks. …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

State Education Indicators with a Focus on Title I 2001-2002
State Education Indicators with a Focus on Title I 2001-02 is based on two-page profiles that report the same indicators for each state and it is the seventh in a series. …
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State End-of-Course Testing Programs: A Policy Brief
State policy makers increasingly rely on end-of-course (EOC) tests to support a variety of purposes and uses. Prominent among these uses are accountability initiatives at the student, teache …
Categories: Research Report, Practice Guide / Handbook , Case Studies | Type: Publication

State Growth Models for School Accountability: Progress on Developing and Reporting
States have increased interest in the use of growth models for school accountability. Growth models are based on tracking change in individual student achievement scores over multiple years …
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State Indicators of Science and Mathematics Education 2007
The present report on state indicators of science and math education for 2007 is the latest in a series of biennial reports on state and national indicators that were initiated in 1991. The …
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State Policy Implications of the Model Core Teaching Standards
This paper is a companion to the Model Core Teaching Standards, outlining key considerations, recommendations, and cautions for using the core teaching standards to create a supportive state …
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State Policy Implications of the Model Core Teaching Standards (Draft Discussion Document)
This discussion paper is a companion piece to the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialog (April 2011) and describes policy levers states can use to adopt and imple …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

Statewide Educational Accountability Systems Under the NCLB Act—A Report on 2009 and 2010 Amendments to State Plans
The conclusion of the 2010–11 school year will mark nine plus years since enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Throughout this period, numerous states—sometimes almost e …
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Summer Learning Opportunities in High-Poverty Schools
report highlights five effective summer learning programs, based in high-poverty schools, that have contributed to improved student achievement. …
Category: Case Studies | Type: Publication

Supporting Student Success: The Promise of Expanded Learning Opportunities
This report describes policy strategies pursued by six states with funding from the Mott Foundation to integrate expanded learning opportunities into education reform. …
Category: Research Report | Type: Publication

Surveys of Enacted Curriculum: Content & Instruction In Focus
Information about the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum process and benefits …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication

The Future of Career Technical Education (CTE) Assessment Executive Summary
On behalf of the states that participated in the 2009–10 State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) on Technical Skills Assessment, this paper addresses two significant …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication
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The Quality Imperative: A State Guide to Achieving the Promise of Expanded Learning Opportunities
This publication highlights the characteristics of high-quality ELOs and the specific action steps state leaders can take to lead the effort to implement a comprehensive state ELO quality sy …
Categories: Topical Research Summary , Case Studies | Type: Publication

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION: Delivering on Our Promise to Every Child
It is imperative that we transform the national education agenda so that each and every child may succeed. CCSSO, has worked in collaboration with members, partners and thought leaders to id …
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Validation of Uses and Interpretations of State Assessments
This paper focuses on consequential validity, an area of validity that states have not directly addressed as part of the NCLB peer review process. Primary attention is given to evidence rega …
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Validity Threats: Detection and Control Practices for State and Local Education Officials
The passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) required all states to implement or revise accountability and reporting systems using a set of business rules prescribed within the …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report, Case Studies | Type: Publication

Validity Threats: Detection and Control Practices for State and Local Education Officials
Validity Threats: Detection and Control Practices for State and Local Education Officials (CCSSO, 2006) is designed to assist states with developing accountability systems. …
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Vertical Scaling in Standards-Based Educational Assessment and Accountability Systems
This paper describes vertical scaling as a method for linking a set of test forms of increasing difficulty, and explores the applicability of these methods for standards-based educational ac …
Categories: Literature Review, Research Report | Type: Program, Publication

Vision for the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Inquiry in Social Studies State Standards
In the advent of the development and mass adoption of the common core state standards for English language arts and mathematics, state and local agencies have now expressed a need to CCSSO f …
Category: Practice Guide / Handbook | Type: Publication
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