Student Performance Assessment Series: Through a Looking Glass: Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Performance Assessment

Raymond Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describe efforts by states to use performance assessment in large-scale state accountability systems and highlight promising practices.This report describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large-scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches accountability testing. The featured states offer a view of assessment practices currently in place that can help shape the development of the next generation of assessments in this country.