With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

The Every Student Succeeds Act invites states and districts to use interim assessments in a new way: by combining their results into one summative score for federal accountability. But testing experts ...

The 19th annual edition of Education Week‘s Quality Counts takes a fresh approach to the state report card. In 2014, Quality Counts took a hiatus from issuing summative grades in order to step back ...

The authors address the reliability of scores obtained on the summative performance assessments during the pilot year of our research. Contrary to classical test theory, we discussed the advantages of ...