Toward Balanced Assessment Systems: Considerations for Implementation and Use

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session will examine the system level design, implementation, and policy levers needed to support balanced assessment systems to support equitable and ambitious teaching and learning. Based on the new National Academy of Education (NAEd) volume, The Implementation and Use of Balanced Assessment Systems, this session will provide an analytic framework for developing the logics, presses, and capacities necessary to implement balanced assessment systems. It will explore prior and current policy initiatives influencing ambitious classroom instruction, assessment, and learning. It will also highlight school, district, and state level practices and policies necessary to support ambitious and equitable teaching, learning, and assessment.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 1: Measurement and Research Methodologies

Chair

• Scott F. Marion, Center for Assessment

Participant

• Amy I. Berman, National Academy of Education

Papers

• Developing, Implementing, and Institutionalizing Complex Educational Innovations: Considerations for Balanced Assessment Systems - Donald J. Peurach, University of Michigan; Jennifer Lin Russell, Vanderbilt University

• Policy Influences on Ambitious Classroom Instruction, Assessment, and Learning - Laura S. Hamilton, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.; Jose-Felipe Martinez, University of California - Los Angeles

• State Practices and Balanced Assessment Systems - Carla Evans, Center for Assessment; Erika L. Landl, Center for Assessment

Discussants

• Ajit Gopalakrishnan, Connecticut State Department of Education

• Debbie Durrence, Gwinnett County Public Schools