| Title | Abstract | Author(s) | Date |
| Bulletin #25: College Readiness Indicators | This paper outlines current student-level indicators at the high school and middle school levels that predict college success. In this bulletin, indicators are divided into three categories: assessment scores (e.g., SAT® exam scores), transcript attributes (e.g., course rigor), and additional indicators (e.g., attendance) that impact achievement. | Cromwell, Ashley M.
Larsen McClarty, Katie
Larson, Sarah J. | 05-2013 |
| Bulletin #24: Learning Progressions: An Overview of Current Validation Methods | Learning progressions represent a set of skills or pieces of knowledge ordered sequentially from least to most complex. This sequence can guide instruction as well as assessment content. This paper describes several useful methods for validating learning progressions including validating the relationship between the progression and student knowledge as well as between the progression and associated assessments. | Soto, Amanda C.
Taylor, Melinda A. | 05-2013 |
| Bulletin #23: What is College and Career Readiness? State Requirements for High School Graduation and State Public University Admissions | This paper compares the minimum requirements for high school graduation in each state with admission requirements for the state’s main (or “flagship”) university campus. In 80% of the states, the high school graduation requirements do not meet the minimum standards necessary for admission to their own state universities. | Conforti, Peter A. | 05-2013 |
| Bulletin #22: What is College and Career Readiness? A Summary of State Definitions | This paper outlines each state’s definition of college and career readiness and shows whether they associate with the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), ACT College and Career Readiness System (ACCRS), or both. The general definition that emerges can not only facilitate interstate discussions on multiple levels, but also provide schools, districts, educators, students, and other stakeholders with clear objectives to effectively prepare students for postsecondary endeavors. | Conforti, Peter A. | 05-2013 |
| Computer-based Assessment of Collaborative Problem-Solving Skills: Human-to-Agent versus Human-to-Human Approach | Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a critical competency for college and career readiness. Students emerging from schools into the workforce and public life will be expected to have CPS skills as well as the ability to perform that collaboration in various group compositions and environments. However, structuring standardized computer-based assessment of CPS skills, specifically for large-scale assessment programs, is challenging. The aim of this study was to explore patterns in student CPS performance and motivation in human-to-agent (H-A) settings compared to human-to-human (H-H) settings. One hundred seventy-nine 14-year-old students from the United States, Singapore, and Israel participated in the study. | Rosen, Yigal, Ph.D.
Tager, Maryam | 03-2013 |
| Improving Text Complexity Measurement through the Reading Maturity Metric | The purposes of this paper are to describe how Word Maturity has been incorporated into Pearson’s text complexity measure, to present initial comparisons between this new measure of text complexity and traditional readability measures, and to address measurement issues in the development and use of text complexity measurements. | Landauer, Tom
Way, Walter D. | 04-2012 |
| The Case for Performance-Based Tasks without Equating | This paper proposes a model for performance-based assessments that assumes random selection of performance-based tasks (PBTs) from a large pool, and that assumes tasks are comparable without equating PBTs. | Way, Walter D.
Murphy, Daniel
Powers, Sonya
Keng, Leslie | 04-2012 |
| Assessing 21st Century Skills: Integrating Research Findings | This paper synthesizes research evidence pertaining to several so-called 21st century skills: critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, metacognition, and motivation. | Lai, Emily R.
Viering, Michaela | 04-2012 |
| Creating Curriculum-Embedded, Performance-Based Assessments for Measuring 21st Century Skills in K-5 Students | This paper will share the author’s experiences working with a large and diverse school district to design curriculum-embedded, performance-based assessments (PBAs) that measure 21st century skills in K-5 students. | Lai, Emily R. | 04-2012 |
| Putting Ducks in a Row: Methods for Empirical Alignment of Performance Scoring | Using historical state data, this report evaluates nine different methods of aligning performance standards and discusses the effects of selecting different methods as well as the potential implications for interpretations of student progress and school success. | McClarty, Katie Larsen
Murphy, Daniel
Keng, Leslie
Turhan, Ahmet
Tong, Ye | 04-2012 |
| Bulletin #21: Evidence Based Standard Setting: Establishing Cut Scores by Integrating Research Evidence with Expert Content Judgments | In this bulletin, we describe the processes and practices associated with Evidence Based Standard Setting, which draw directly from the concept of evidence-based medicine. | Beimers, Jennifer N.
Way, Walter D.
McClarty, Katie Larsen
Miles, Julie A. | 01-2012 |
| Critical Thinking: A Literature Review | Critical thinking includes the component skills of analyzing arguments, making inferences using inductive or deductive reasoning, judging or evaluating, and making decisions or solving problems. | Lai, Emily R. | 06-2011 |
| Collaboration: A Literature Review | Collaboration is the “mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve a problem together.” | Lai, Emily R. | 06-2011 |
| Motivation: A Literature Review | Motivation refers to reasons that underlie behavior that is characterized by willingness and volition. | Lai, Emily R. | 04-2011 |
| Through-Course Common Core Assessments in the United States: Can Summative Assessment Be Formative? | In this paper, we present a design for enhancing the formative uses of summative through-course assessments. | Way, Walter D.
Larsen McClarty, Katie
Murphy, Dan
Ken, Leslie
Fuhrken, Charles | 04-2011 |
| Metacognition: A Literature Review | Metacognition is defined most simply as "thinking about thinking." | Lai, Emily R. | 04-2011 |
| American Diploma Project Algebra II End-of-Course Exam: Standard Setting Briefing Book | The Briefing Book includes an overview of 1) the American Diploma Project, 2) the ADP
Algebra II End-of-Course Exam, 3) the standard setting process, and 4) the validity studies conducted to
inform standard setting. Concurrent, cross sectional, and judgment studies are also included. | Pearson | 07-2010 |
| Designing and Operating a Common High School Assessment System | This paper attempts to lay out some of the important issues to be faced by states and consortia as they consider implementation of a high school assessment system within the current Race to the Top framework. | Camara, Wayne
Sweeney, Kevin
Twing, Jon S.
Way, Walter D.
Lazer, Stephen
Mazzeo, John | 04-2010 |
| Incremental Validity of Numerical Reasoning over Critical Thinking | This study was conducted to evaluate the incremental validity of numerical reasoning over critical thinking in predicting job performance and overall potential as measured by supervisors’ ratings. | Ejiogu, Kingsley C.
Rose, Mark
Trent, John
Yang, Zhiming | 08-2007 |
| Understanding the Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Job Performance | This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between a measure of critical thinking ability and job performance as measured by supervisors’ ratings. | Ejiogu, Kingsley C.
Rose, Mark
Trent, John
Yang, Zhiming | 05-2006 |
| Miller Analogies Research Report | Once a mainstay of college admission tests, many educators have come to see the analogy format as obsolete, something like a manual typewriter in the age of word processing and text messaging. | Meagher, Don | 03-2006 |
| Understanding Analogies | Once a mainstay of college admission tests, many educators have come to see the analogy format as obsolete, something like a manual typewriter in the age of word processing and text messaging. | Meagher, Don, EdD | 03-2006 |