B. Administer Assessments

• Cleveland Academic Standards and Assessment System
  Cleveland Public Schools, Align-2-Achieve, Jes & Co., and Intel have cooperated on a pilot item bank repository to support low stake formative assessments.
• Individual Growth and School Success
  This superb paper by NWEA walks through a cogent and compelling rational to adapt AYP to make use of individual student growth data.
• Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education
  Test-based accountability systems that attach high stakes to standardized test results have raised a number of issues on educational assessment and accountability. Do these high-stakes tests measure student achievement accurately? How can policymakers and educators attach the right consequences to the results of these tests? And what kinds of tradeoffs do these testing policies introduce? This book responds to the growing emphasis on high-stakes testing and offers recommendations for more-effective test-based accountability systems.
• Testing the Testers 2003: An Annual Ranking of State Accountability System
  Princeton Review grades each state's assessment system.
• Why States Need to Give High Quality Tests
  As states scramble to expand testing to satisfy the No Child Left Behind Act and to confront historic budget shortfalls, Achieve, Inc., and the National Center for Educational Accountability are urging them not to forego high-quality tests in the name of speed or affordability.