Publications: High-Stakes Testing and Evaluation

Jamaal Bowman Discusses the "More Teaching Less Testing Act of 2023"

FYI

Jamaal Bowman

October 13, 2023

NEPC Review: As a Matter of Fact: National Charter School Study III 2023 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2023)

NEPC Review

Joseph J. Ferrare

September 8, 2023

Consumer-Oriented School Rating Systems and Their Implications for Educational Equity

Policy Brief

Jeanne M. Powers

April 13, 2023

NEPC Review: School Accountability--Past, Present, and Future (Hoover Institution, November 2020)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

February 10, 2021

NEPC Review: Student Assessment During COVID-19 (Center for American Progress, September 2020)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass, William J. Mathis, and David C. Berliner

October 30, 2020

NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

November 26, 2019

NEPC Review: The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018 (Mackinac Center, January 2019)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

April 18, 2019

A Consumer’s Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?

Resource Document

Madhabi Chatterji

March 5, 2019

NEPC Review: Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong (Reason Foundation, November 2018)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 27, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Alyssa Hadley Dunn on Viral Teacher Resignation Letters

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Alyssa Hadley Dunn

October 17, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman, Erin Coghlan, and Rick Mintrop

May 18, 2017

NEPC Review: High Stakes for High Achievers:
State Accountability in the Age of ESSA (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2016)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

January 26, 2017

Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Tina Trujillo

November 17, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

Review of Measuring School Turnaround Success

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

July 20, 2016

Research-Based Expectations for Implementation of the Community Schools Initiative in New York City

Policy Memo

Julia Daniel, Kevin G. Welner, and Michelle Renée Valladares

June 14, 2016

NEPC Review: SchoolGrades.org (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2015)

NEPC Review

Jaime Del Razo

March 10, 2016

NEPC Review: Lessons From State Performance on NAEP: Why Some High-Poverty Students Score Better Than Others (Center for American Progress , January 2016)

NEPC Review

Sharon L. Nichols

February 26, 2016

Review of The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time

NEPC Review

Joseph Cimpian

December 3, 2015

Divining the Meaning of the Test Scores

Resource Document

William J. Mathis

November 3, 2015

NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

NEPC Review: Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: The Research on School Turnaround (Center for American Progress, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

May 11, 2015

NEPC Review: Urban Charter School Study Report on 41 Regions 2015 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), March 2015)

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul

April 27, 2015

Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and William J. Mathis

February 12, 2015

NEPC Review: The Productivity of Public Charter Schools (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2014)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass

August 19, 2014

Review of Two Alternative Teacher Preparation Proposals

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

May 29, 2014

Review of The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

April 15, 2014

School Self-Evaluation and Inspection for Improving U.S. Schools?

Policy Brief

Katherine E. Ryan, Tysza Gandha, and Jeehae Ahn

November 12, 2013

Data-Driven Improvement and Accountability

Legislative Brief

Andy Hargreaves, Henry Braun, and Kathleen Gebhardt

October 22, 2013

Review of The Lessons of No Child Left Behind

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

August 27, 2013

NEPC Review: National Charter School Study 2013 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2013)

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul and Abby McClelland

July 16, 2013

Consequential Validity and the Transformation of Tests from Measurement Tools to Policy Tools

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

May 25, 2013

Policy Reforms and De-professionalization of Teaching

Policy Brief

Rich Milner

February 28, 2013

NEPC Review: Have We Identified Effective Teachers? (Gates Foundation, January 2013)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein and William J. Mathis

January 31, 2013

How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and David E. Meens

October 16, 2012

An Analysis of the Use and Validity of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations Reported by the Los Angeles Times: 2011

Research Brief

Catherine S. Durso

June 20, 2012

NEPC Review: Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2011)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

October 13, 2011

Letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Concerning Evaluation of Teachers and Principals

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

July 30, 2011

NEPC Review: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems (April 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 18, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

NEPC Review: Stretching the School Dollar: A Brief for State Policymakers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

January 26, 2011

NEPC Review: Learning About Teaching (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein

January 13, 2011

NEPC Review: 2010 State School Report Card (October 2010)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Bridget Rooney

December 14, 2010

High Stakes, but Low Validity? A Case Study of Standardized Tests and Admissions into New York City Specialized High Schools

Research Brief

Joshua Feinman

October 22, 2008

The Overselling of Growth Modeling

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2008

The Testing Culture and the Persistence of High Stakes Testing Reforms

Resource Document

Michele S. Moses and M. J. Nanna

January 1, 2007

Assessment, High Stakes, and Alternative Visions: Appropriate Use of the Right Tools to Leverage Improvement

Policy Brief

Daniel Laitsch

January 1, 2006

A Practitioner’s Guide to Value-Added Assessment (Educational Policy Studies Laboratory Research Monograph)

Research Brief

Edward W. Wiley

January 1, 2006

Voices from the Classroom: A Statewide Survey of Experienced Third-Grade English Language Learner Teachers on the Impact of Lang

Research Brief

Daniel Choi and Wayne Wright

January 1, 2005

High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act

Research Brief

Sharon L. Nichols, Gene V Glass, and David C. Berliner

January 1, 2005

The Impact of the Adequate Yearly Progress Requirement of the Federal "No Child Left Behind" Act on Schools in the Great Lakes

Research Brief

Edward W. Wiley, William J. Mathis, and David R. Garcia

January 1, 2005

The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes Testing

Legacy Publication

Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner

January 1, 2005

Test Results Untrustworthy

Legacy Publication

David C. Berliner and Sharon L. Nichols

January 1, 2005

Closing the Gap: Enhancing Student Outcomes in an Urban Professional Development School

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner, S. Ahwee, D. Van Garderen, and C. Hernandez

January 1, 2004

Reform Florida

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, and Victoria-Maria MacDonald

January 1, 2004

Reports Find Fault with High-Stakes Testing

Resource Document

January 8, 2003

High-Stakes AIMS is a Brutal Test That Hurts the Students

Legacy Publication

January 1, 2003

High-Stakes Testing and U.S.-Mexican Youth in Texas: The Case for Multiple Compensatory Criteria in Assessment

Resource Document

September 1, 2002

What Happened to Recess and Why are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?

Legacy Publication

Susan Ohanian

March 22, 2002

What You Need to Know About High Stakes Testing in California

Resource Document

Harold Berlak

March 20, 2002

An Analysis of the Content and Difficulty of the CSAP 10th-Grade Mathematics Test

Legacy Publication

Lorrie Shepard and D. Peressini

January 1, 2002

The Impact of High-Stakes Tests on Student Academic Performance

Policy Brief

David C. Berliner

January 1, 2002

An Analysis of Some Unintended and Negative Consequences of High-Stakes Testing

Research Brief

David C. Berliner

January 1, 2002

Implications for the Use of the ACT Within the Colorado Student Assessment Program

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2002

Pupils Lose Their Grip on Education if Schools Hold Too Tightly to Tests

Resource Document

March 26, 2001

Congress, Teachers, and the Perils of Merit Pay

Policy Brief

Catherine A. Lugg

January 1, 2001

Tracking in an Era of Standards: Low-Expectation Classes Meet High-Expectation Laws

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2001

A Survey of Teachers' Perspectives on High-Stakes Testing in Colorado: What Gets Taught, What Gets Lost

Resource Document

Grace Taylor, Lorrie Shepard, Freya Kinner, and Justin Rosenthal

January 1, 2001

Texas Tests Harbor a "Soft Bigotry" of Their Own

Legacy Publication

December 6, 2000

High-Stakes Testing

Policy Brief

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2000

Testing Teachers to Raise Standards: Does It Work?

Legacy Publication

Harold Berlak

January 1, 2000

Effects of High-Stakes Testing on Instruction

Resource Document

K. Cutts-Dougherty

January 1, 1991

The Effects of High-Stakes Testing on Achievement: Preliminary Findings About Generalization Across Tests

Resource Document

S. B. Dunbar, D. Koretz, and Robert L. Linn

January 1, 1991

Should Instruction Be Measurement Driven? A Debate

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1988

The Texas Teacher Test

Resource Document

A. Kreitzer

January 1, 1987