Getting Ready for Online Assessments

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Professional Development Assessment and Evaluation Network Architecture and Infrastructure K-12 State Policy and Law Digital Learning

Abstract

“Getting Ready for Online Assessments” by John Bailey, Carri Schneider, and Tom Vander Ark is the third interactive paper in the DLN Smart Series, which provides recommendations for states and districts to prepare for new, online assessments in the wake of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation in the 2014-15 school year.

The paper makes the following 10 primary recommendations to states and districts:
 

  1. Match teaching & testing environment
  2. Shift to digital instructional materials
  3. Boost access
  4. Build a plan for the greater shift
  5. Support blends
  6. Boost broadband
  7. Invest in teaching training
  8. Learn from other states
  9. Use sample items; and
  10. Use Core-aligned adaptive assessment.


Written by John Bailey, Carri Schneider and Tom Vander Ark

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