Current Challenge
States and districts face unprecedented challenges in navigating the standards, assessment, and accountability landscape. These three essential components of teaching and learning systems are expected to be fair for all students and technically sound, and support multiple purposes. Controversy, competing priorities, and increased demands for innovation can pose difficulty for these systems.
Purpose
The Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability (CSAA) works to drive informed decision-making about standards, assessment, and accountability at the federal, state, and local levels. Our work puts better student outcomes at the center of everything we do.
We partner with clients nationwide, providing policy guidance, content expertise, and solutions responsive to local contexts. We support customized and research-based, student-focused systems to deliver fair and valid measurements of student performance, and we provide guidance for educators and policymakers on making the best use of results.
Audience Served
CSAA provides educators, the students they serve, state and local educational agencies, and educational organization partners and researchers with the tools, resources, guidance, and information to support the equitable and meaningful improvement of student learning.
Key Activities
CSAA provides a comprehensive portfolio of guidance, resources, services, and professional learning opportunities that promote evidence-based practices to improve student performance and educator development across content areas.
Leadership teams can also receive guidance on the instructional and programmatic impacts of policy changes, along with tools and resources to support implementation.
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