ETS Common State Assessments

ETS Common State Assessments

Two consortia have been awarded funding through the RTTTA competition to design new assessment systems: SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC). Short illustrations of their assessment system models were designed by the Center for K – 12 Assessment & Performance Management at ETS (the Center) and approved by the consortia:

·             SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (PDF)

·             Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PDF)

The Center also created a summarized version (PDF) of the two comprehensive assessment system models proposed by SBAC and PARCC.

The RTTTA funding competition has also awarded grants to two consortia to develop a new generation of alternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities: National Center and State Collaborative Partnership and Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System Consortium.

http://www.ets.org/s/commonassessments/pdf/SBAC_illustration.pdf