Common Core State Standards: New Assessments Mean New Challenges
My EWA colleague Mikhail Zinshteyn has a fine write-up over at EdMedia Commons on a new report digging deeper into plans by consortia of states to use the same assessments to measure the effectiveness and impact of the Common Core State Standards.
Education Week’s Catherine Gewertz also has a solid overview,
which you can read
here.
The report, published Wednesday, comes from the National Center
for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
(CRESST) at University of
California, Los Angeles. Among the highlights: the bar is
definitely going to be raised for student learning, and the new
assessments will focus more on measuring higher-order thinking
than the prior state tests.
I’ve written recently about why Common Core will be one of the
big
education stories of 2013, and I’ve also looked at the
confusion over what the new requirements for
what students will read in class. EWA also hosted a seminar
in Los Angeles to discuss what the Common Core will mean for
English-language learners, teachers and tests.
And while we’re on the topic of EWA seminars, we have a few
travel scholarships still available for qualified journalists who
want to learn more about STEM education next month at the
University of Maryland. Click here
for the details.
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