ETS has developed really nice overviews of the two competing plans for future assessments. They sum up huge applications in a single page and getting each group's agreement that the overview is sound. They're well-worth downloading for the informative visuals, and suitable for sharing with many audiences of educators, parents, and citizens. You can download by clicking Smarter Balanced, PARCC,
or both.
Go read 'em.
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After everyone reads these, I'd be interested in their opinions.
Somehow, they brought back memories of the long-time-failed performance events we used to have with the KIRIS assessment. Those proved to be impossible to create in ways that were of comparable difficulty over time. KDE ran into enormous linking and equating issues that never could be resolved, and these events crashed around 1996.
Also, due to the inherently subjective nature of the scoring, there probably will be additional issues for longitudinal assessment use with these products.
But, maybe I'm missing something.
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