EdVoice and 12 other education advocacy organizations have submitted a letter to the California Legislature opposing Senate Bill 1263, which would eliminate teaching performance assessments. Teaching ...

Performance assessments in the workplace do not exist solely for evaluating an employee's performance. Performance assessments also serve to establish and reinforce agreed-upon performance standards ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets A controversial bill that would have eliminated teaching performance assessments — the last licensure test California ...

Many advocates have bemoaned the focus on multiple-choice testing that has grown since the advent of No Child Left Behind. They often argue for more meaningful assessments, ones that include more ...

I’ve been involved in large-scale performance assessment efforts for well over three decades, and I can say with certainty that while we’ve learned a lot of lessons, we have yet to get performance ...

The discussion during the workshop highlighted a number of key challenges that must be addressed when performance assessments are used for accountability in the federal adult education system: (1) ...

This post is by Ace Parsi, the Personalized Learning Partnership Manager for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and Susan Lyons, an associate at the National Center for the Improvement of ...

Across the country, educators and policy makers are searching for ways to develop and implement innovative assessment programs to address accountability requirements and to reform instruction. As both ...

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA), enacted by Congress in 1998, requires states to establish a comprehensive accountability system for adult education programs. The WIA mandates that states must ...