by admin | Dec 20, 2017 | Assessment System Design and Evaluation
The Technical Issues in Large Scale Assessment State Collaborative on Assessments and Student Standards (TILSA SCASS) of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) commissioned Dr. Ellen Forte to write the white paper, Evaluating Alignment in Large-Scale...
by admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Assessment System Design and Evaluation
Based on Dr. Ellen Forte’s publications on the topic of alignment evaluation (e.g., 2013, 2017), this workshop provided participants with solid grounding in alignment evaluation methods for standards-based assessments within the contexts of principled-design...
by admin | Sep 27, 2017 | Assessment System Design and Evaluation
edCount is collaborating with lead state, Nebraska, and two other states (Montana, and Wyoming) and three partner organizations (ACS Ventures, SRI International, and PIRE, Inc.) on the Strengthening Claims-based Interpretations and Uses of Local and Large–scale...
by admin | Sep 14, 2017 | Assessment System Design and Evaluation
edCount led a panel discussion on the topic of strengthening claims-based interpretations and uses of local and large-scale science assessment scores at the 2017 NCME Special Conference on Classroom Assessment and Large-Scale Psychometrics. In this panel discussion,...
by admin | May 2, 2017 | Archive
In 2009, Dr. Elizabeth Summers (formerly Towles-Reeves), joined edCount as a Research Associate. Since then, she has led and assisted numerous local, regional, and national studies of general and alternate assessment systems, and served as coordinator or manager of...
