Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book summarizes research and lessons learned regarding the development, implementation, and consequences of performance assessments. The volume examines experiences with and lessons from large-scale performance assessment in the United States and abroad, including technical advances, feasibility issues, teacher engagement, policy implications, uses with English Language Learners, and costs.

The work was guided by an Advisory Board of education researchers, practitioners, and policy analysts, ably chaired by Richard Shavelson. The board shaped specifications for commissioned papers that became some of these chapters and reviewed these papers upon their completion. We are grateful to Advisory Board members Eva Baker, Christopher ...