Educational Technology

January 29, 2013

8 Questions Worth Asking about Coming Common Core Assessments

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

by Jonathan Martin, 21k12blog

This post continue a small project here at 21k12 of viewing the coming Common Core Standards through a backwards prism: the testing assessments that will evaluate student and school success at learning and teaching Common Core standards. These new assessments sit at a junction of topics I’m interested in and working on regularly: integrating technology, next generation and digitally enhanced assessment, computer adaptive assessment, and performance task assessment. These new Common Core (CCSS) assessments are the product in part of Secretary Arne Duncan’s call for a new generation of Assessments, Assessment 2.0 he calls it, about which I have written before. To advance this vision of moving “beyond the bubble,” the US DOE is spending, via Race to the Top funding, more than $300 M in developing new kinds of tests and testing systems, split between two major programs, PARCC and Smarter Balanced.

http://21k12blog.net/2013/01/18/8-questions-worth-asking-about-coming-common-core-assessments/

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