Building an Interim Assessment System A Workbook for

Building an Interim Assessment System: A Workbook for School Districts

Interim Assessment State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) • opportunities for states to collaboratively address problems and opportunities • draw from a greater pool of experience not easily available when a state confronts the same challenges alone • developmental costs are amortized over the number of states involved (economy of scale) • leverage attention and federal grants • professional development on a broad range of issues • the collective wisdom of these groups offer the U. S. Department of Education a sounding board for reacting to new initiatives and provides credible and useful input on department guidelines

Interim Assessment Technical Issues in Large Scale Assessment (TILSA) SCASS – conduct practical research on critical topics in large-scale state assessments – create guidelines and products that states can use when designing and implementing their assessment systems – provide professional development opportunities for assessment staff of member states.

Interim Assessment “Interim Assessment Practices and Avenues for State Involvement” • disseminate information about this type of student assessment and how it can be used • clarify and elaborate on the differences between interim and formative assessments • describe examples of state educational agencies’ (SEAs’) involvement with interim assessments and identify state roles regarding these assessments • highlight educational agencies or jurisdictions where this type of assessment appears to be having benefits

Interim Assessment “Building an Interim Assessment System: A Workbook for School Districts” • Workbook contains questions critical to a thorough, district-level self-examination of readiness for an interim assessment system • The questions are intended to guide district stakeholders through a structured consideration of building or revisiting their interim assessments.