Topic: Assessment and Accountability

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Ideas and Tips for Student Agency in Assessment

Empowering students to set goals and track their progress using clear rubrics and reflective tools

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

Evaluating Technical Quality in the Context of Assessment Innovation

Examination of how to evaluate technical quality for innovative assessment systems

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Futures of Assessment

This forecast imagines possibilities in four futures that use asset-based formative assessment.

We have an opportunity to consider approaches to assessment to suit the education landscape and support individual learning and growth.

What might a minimal federal footprint mean for school quality systems?

Helping education constituents navigate today’s shifting landscape with resilience and success

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

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Supporting Students, Advancing Our Future

KnowledgeWorks recommended short- and long-term actions for the new administration in four key areas

photo of three women of different races/ethnicities smiling at the camera: Lillian Pace, Brenda Calderon and Amalia Chamorro

Innovating Assessment Through Federal and State Partnerships

Research tells us assessments in traditional education systems aren’t working. Explore how states can work with the federal government to innovate assessments.

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

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123 Not ABC: Measuring Mastery at Kenowa Hills

At the Early Childhood Center in Kenowa Hills, Michigan, posters help explain proficiency grading levels.

Emily Smith
Senior Director of Network Advancement

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What Standards-based Grading Looks Like in a Kindergarten Classroom

With the support of their teacher, kindergarteners in this Arizona elementary school understand the standards they’re working through.

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Five Things to Consider When Implementing Standards-based Grading

Five pieces of advice designed to help others overcome the potential hurdles faced during the first year or two of implementing standards-based grading

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A Systemic Shift to Standards-based Grading

How one Arizona school is empowering educators, learners and families through a shift to standards-based grading

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Clearing the Path for Assessment Innovation

The status quo is failing kids; federal policy must evolve to allow schools to give them what they deserve. Here's how.

Equity in Measuring School Quality

A KnowledgeWorks and WestEd report investigates whether state measurements on school performance accurately reflect school quality.

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