Welcome
At this site, I write about K-12 assessment and about education more broadly. During the day I manage the development of high-quality proposals for a large-scale educational assessment provider.
Most recent posts
Artificial intelligence in K-12 educational testing
Seems to me that, once you get past the news coverage of the U.S. presidential campaign, the next most dominant news story is about generative artificial intelligence (AI). Most of the coverage seems to center around how generative AI will…
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Implementation of curriculum-anchored through-year assessments in the United States (or lack thereof)
In my last post, I used cursory examinations of what some states were doing around through-year assessments to make statements about whether they were curriculum-agnostic or curriculum-specific. I see curriculum-specific, or curriculum-anchored, through-year assessments as a significant innovation in assessment…
A look at curriculum-anchored assessment
The need for a new testing paradigm Late this past summer, in schools around the country, teachers wanted to learn more about what their students knew and could do. This information would have helped them plan lessons that started from…
My skillset
- Proposal writing and management: I write highly technical and engaging proposal text.
- Program management: I have managed multi-million dollar statewide assessment programs for state education agencies.
- Test development: I have developed math test content, designed large-scale assessments, and planned item development activities.
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