The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and College Admission. Research Brief

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Performance Based Assessment; College Readiness; Career Readiness; High School Students; College Admission; State Policy; Public Schools; Private Schools; High Schools; Decision Making; Student Placement; Admission Criteria; Academic Advising; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Innovation

Colorado; Connecticut; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Kentucky; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; New York; North Carolina; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Dakota; Vermont; Virginia; Washington

The report on which this brief is based describes performance assessments and their value for guiding and evaluating high school students' learning, as well as informing colleges and universities about what students know and can do. It explores state and local policies that support the use of such assessments, along with emerging higher education efforts to incorporate them in college admission, placement, and advising. It discusses steps that can help ensure that performance assessments are high-quality, rigorous, and well understood and that can facilitate the use of these assessments in higher education decisions. [For the full report, see ED606782.]

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2020

ED606783