NEPC Resources on Assessment

Issues to Consider Before Adopting a Digital Platform or Learning Program

Policy Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Michael K. Barbour

September 24, 2020

The Misguided Push to Reintroduce Standardized Testing During the Pandemic

Newsletter

August 6, 2020

Four Big Takeaways About Testing

Newsletter

March 5, 2020

Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity

Newsletter

October 8, 2019

Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why

Newsletter

August 29, 2019

NEPC Review: Education System Alignment for 21st Century Skills: Focus on Assessment (The Brookings Institution, November 2018)

NEPC Review

Lorrie Shepard

A Consumer’s Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?

Resource Document

Madhabi Chatterji

March 5, 2019

High Stakes, Low Validity?

Newsletter

July 19, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

Review of High Stakes for High Achievers and High Stakes for High Schoolers

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

Review of The Efficiency Index

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

Does Class Size Matter?

Policy Brief

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

February 18, 2014

Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools

NEPC Review

Patricia Burch, Mary Stewart, and Jahni Smith

Review of KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

Review of Does Sorting Students Improve Test Scores?

NEPC Review

Carol C. Burris and Katherine E. Allison

Review of On Her Majesty’s School Inspection Service

NEPC Review

Steven Jay Gross

When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Fact Sheet

NEPC Review

Matthew Di Carlo

Letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Concerning Evaluation of Teachers and Principals

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

July 30, 2011

Passing Muster Fails Muster? (An Evaluation of Evaluating Evaluation Systems)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

Review of Learning About Teaching

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein

Review of U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students?

NEPC Review

Jeremy Kilpatrick

Review of 2010 State School Report Card

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Bridget Rooney

High Stakes, but Low Validity? A Case Study of Standardized Tests and Admissions into New York City Specialized High Schools

Research Brief

Joshua Feinman

October 22, 2008

The Overselling of Growth Modeling

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2008

Review of Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure

NEPC Review

Damian W. Betebenner

Review of Portfolios: A Backward Step in School Accountability

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

The Use of Assessment for Curricular Differentiation

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and K. Martinez

January 1, 2007

Assessment, High Stakes, and Alternative Visions: Appropriate Use of the Right Tools to Leverage Improvement

Policy Brief

Daniel Laitsch

January 1, 2006

Reform Florida

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Gene V Glass, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, and Victoria-Maria MacDonald

January 1, 2004

Significance of Test-Based Ratings for Metropolitan Boston Schools

Resource Document

October 16, 2001

The Role of Classroom Assessment in Teaching and Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 2001

The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 2000

Measuring Achievement: What Does It Mean to Test for Robust Understanding?

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1997

Parents' Thinking About Standardized Tests and Performance

Legacy Publication

C. L. Bliem

January 1, 1995

The Place of Testing Reform in Educational Reform: A Reply to Cizek

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1993

Commentary: What Policymakers Who Mandate Tests Should Know About the New Psychology of Intellectual Ability and Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1992

Psychometricians' Beliefs about Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1991