Race to the Top Assessment Competition Public & Expert Input Meetings High School Boston, MA November 13, 2009

Goals of the Assessment Program Support States in delivering a system of more effective and instructionally useful assessments: More accurate information about what students know and can do: Achievement of standards Growth On-track to college and career ready by the time of high school graduation Reflects and supports good instructional practice Includes all students, including English language learners and students with disabilities Usable to inform: Teaching, learning, and program improvement Determinations of school effectiveness Determinations of principal and teacher effectiveness for the purposes of evaluation and support Determinations of individual student college and career readiness 12/8/2015 2

Other Requirements Subjects and Grades – at a minimum: Reading/language arts and mathematics Grades 3-8 and high school Summative assessments – at a minimum – but: Not necessarily end-of-year Not necessarily once during the year Not necessarily one test May replace rather than add to assessments currently in use Be valid, reliable, and fair 12/8/2015 3

Goals for the Input Meetings Paint a vision of the what the next generation of assessment systems could and should look like. Provide concrete expert and public guidance to ED staff, in response to questions asked in the notice. Help prepare States to develop the highest quality proposals with the greatest likelihood of impact. 12/8/2015 4

Agenda – High School 1:30-1:40Welcome/Setting the Stage 1:40-3:00Expert Presentations 3:00-3:45 Round Table Discussion 3:45-4:00Break (public speakers queue up) 4:00-5:00Public Speakers 12/8/2015 5

Housekeeping Submitting your questions Time keeping Cell phones on vibrate please Today’s session will be transcribed and posted to together with the presentations Additional written input may be submitted to 11/17/2009

On the Panel Invited Experts Gene Bottoms, Senior Vice President Southern Regional Education Board Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor of Education Stanford University, School of Education Shelley Loving-Ryder, Assistant Superintendent Virginia Department of Education Lauress Wise, Principal Scientist Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) From the U.S. Department of Education Joanne Weiss, Director of Race to the Top, Office of the Secretary Ann Whalen, Special Assistant to the Secretary Judy Wurtzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development Amy Laitenen, Office of the Undersecretary (Postsecondary) 12/8/2015 7

Key Questions How would you demonstrate that high school students are on track to college and career readiness, and at what points throughout high school would you recommend measuring this? Discuss your recommendations around the use of end-of-course assessments versus comprehensive assessments of college and career readiness. 12/8/2015 8