Institute for Innovative Assessment

Information on our grant: http://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=1475

Search Funded Research Grants and Contracts - Details Purpose: English Language Learners, on average, score lower on math and science assessments than their English-speaking peers. Growing evidence suggests that ELLs who have the opportunity to develop English proficiency and adequate content coverage, including coverage of more complex concepts and sk…

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IIA: News Rebecca Kopriva (PI) and Therese Carr (Project Manager) received $1,599,764 from IES for “Technology-interactive Classroom-embedded Modules for Measuring Challenging Math and Science Skills of ELs.” The project is building and testing a number of classroom-embedded tasks designed to measure math and…

IIA researchers Rebecca Kopriva and Therese Carr have won a Bridge Funding Award from University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education. The funds are intended to support the Institute's ongoing work on developing and investigating interactive assessments.

IIA Director Rebecca Kopriva will participate in AERA's Vice Presidential Invited Symposium: Technology Enhanced Items in Large Scale Assessments in Philadelphia, PA on April 7th. Kopriva will share her presentation, “Dynamic tasks that use novel response spaces and multi-layered, multi-semiotic techniques," at the symposium along with fellow invitees Wayne Camara (ACT), Ellen Strain-Seymour (Pearson), Randy Bennett (ETS),Jeremy Roschelle, and Terry Vendlinski (SRI International) , and Stephen Sireci (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).

Check out this article about performance assessment in schools: http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/03/05/ndia_performanceassessment.html?r=838694487. This is a terrific role for our ONPAR tasks and testlets. Learn more and view samples here: http://iiassessment.wceruw.org/projects/

Performance Assessment Re-Emerging in Schools Looking for better ways to measure the "deeper learning" goals of the common standards, schools are increasingly turning to formalized performance tasks.

Check out our new website. It's still under construction but a number of papers, our online testlets, and a number of sample tasks are available. Come back soon for more...http://iiassessment.wceruw.org/

IIA: Institute for Innovative Assessment STELLA for Classroom Learning Explore resources designed to empower teachers to differentially instruct and assess ELs in the classroom. More

Rebecca Kopriva is presenting at the Instructional Sensitivity Conference at University of Kansas today.

Instructional Sensitivity Conference attracts national experts to discuss critical issue in... November 13-15, 2013 | GCSAA, 1421 Research Park Drive, Lawrence, Kan.