How Can Released State Test Items Support Interim Assessment Purposes in an Educational Crisis? EdWorkingPaper No. 20-292

Autor/inn/en	Klugman, Emma M.; Ho, Andrew D.
Institution	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Titel	How Can Released State Test Items Support Interim Assessment Purposes in an Educational Crisis? EdWorkingPaper No. 20-292
Quelle	(2020), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Test Items; State Programs; Testing Programs; Scores; Academic Achievement; Open Source Technology; Crisis Management; COVID-19; Pandemics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Test content; Testaufgabe; Regierungsprogramm; Schulleistung; Krisenmanagement
Abstract	State testing programs regularly release previously administered test items to the public. We provide an open-source recipe for state, district, and school assessment coordinators to combine these items flexibly to produce scores linked to established state score scales. These would enable estimation of student score distributions and achievement levels. We discuss how educators can use resulting scores to estimate achievement distributions at the classroom and school level. We emphasize that any use of such tests should be tertiary, with no stakes for students, educators, and schools, particularly in the context of a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. These tests and their results should also be lower in priority than assessments of physical, mental, and social-emotional health, and lower in priority than classroom and district assessments that may already be in place. We encourage state testing programs to release all the ingredients for this recipe to support low-stakes, aggregate-level assessments. This is particularly urgent during a crisis where scores may be declining and gaps increasing at unknown rates. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01