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Introducing the Progress Toward Standards (PTS) Item Bank
Measured Progress is making a commitment to improve student learning by using our experience in assessment and professional development to develop new products and services for local school districts. In this issue: the new PTS Item Bank Read more
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Measured Progress Presents at Professional Development Institute in Vermont
More than 500 educators from five supervisory unions attended the First Annual Green Mountain Forest Collaborative Professional Development Institute at the Randolph Union High School. Read more
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What Does All This Student Work Tell Us?
Catherine Garrison encourages educators not to overlook "the largest body of evidence about student performance" in an article for National Middle School Association's Middle Ground. Read more
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Cutting-Edge Mathematical Models
In his latest publication, Michael Nering provides an introduction to polytomous item response theory models used to understand how students are interacting with constructed-response items. Read more
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Making Licensure Tests Fair and Accurate for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults
Michael Ehringhaus co-authors a book chapter suggesting that for many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, testing in written English can present difficulties similar to those faced by students taking tests in a language that is not their first. Read more
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The Reading Scoring Guide
When a scorer candidate was asked if he had any questions about an upcoming scoring project, he had just one: "How on earth do you know what score to give a student's response . . . ?" Read more |
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Recent Reports
highlighting testing and other major K–12 education issues. Read more |
