UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has received $100,000 from AT&T to support an initiative that will produce a set of common assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards for students in grades 7-12.
The Common Assessment Project at UCLA Community School will create protocols to build the school’s capacity for supporting common assessment administration, data management, documentation, scoring, reliability testing and formative data use.
The project will develop instructionally sensitive performance assessments in secondary mathematics, science, social studies and English that will be used to support and track student growth over time.
Karen Hunter Quartz, director of research for the community school and Center X, said the AT&T gift will be “foundational to the school’s innovative effort to collect multiple types of data on student learning, and help teachers and students use that data to improve learning and ensure graduation.”
The school aims to progressively archive a student’s work and assessments into a comprehensive “Bruin File” portfolio, accompanied by protocols that support reflection, deeper learning and goal setting.
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