Cultivating a Collaborative: Emphasizing Stakeholder Trust to Develop and Research High-Quality Performance Assessments in California

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Though there is growing interest in bridging the gaps between education researchers and diverse organizational stakeholders, there is a need to identify more models of such partnerships. This symposium will feature a statewide collaborative of California practitioners, researchers, and technical assistance providers who formed an educator-driven learning community to support the high-quality implementation of student performance assessments, particularly in the context of 12th grade portfolio and capstone defenses of learning. Regular convenings of this collaborative built trust among participating stakeholders and contributed to mutually beneficial research on the conditions necessary to support implementation of performance assessments in school districts. The symposium will present the findings from this research, along with the perspectives of multiple stakeholders engaged in the collaborative.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools / Division H - Section 3: Assessment in Schools

Chair

• Anna Maier, Learning Policy Institute

Papers

• Establishing a Statewide Performance Assessment Collaborative: A Theory of Change for Practitioner-Driven Research Engagement - Julie Kessler, San Francisco Unified School District

• Findings From a District-Level Multiple-Case Study of a Statewide Performance Assessment Collaborative in California - Maya Kaul, University of Pennsylvania; Charlotte Thompson, Learning Policy Institute; Dion Burns, Learning Policy Institute; Anna Maier, Learning Policy Institute; Marisa Saunders, University of California - Los Angeles; Julie Adams, Learning Policy Institute

• Identifying District Levers for Improvement and Sustained Implementation of Performance Assessments Through a Research-Practice Partnership - Young Whan Choi, Oakland Unified School District

• Deepening Local Stakeholder Capacity to Bring Quality Performance Assessment to Scale Through a Research-Practice Partnership - Ruth Chung Wei, Envision Education

Discussant

• Esther Soliman, LA Unified School District