Institute for Innovative Assessment

07/02/2014

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

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…

07/02/2014

We got an IES grant! See details below...

07/02/2014

http://iiassessment.wceruw.org/news.html

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…

03/07/2014

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.

03/07/2014

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).

03/07/2014

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/

Looking for better ways to measure the "deeper learning" goals of the common standards, schools are increasingly turning to formalized performance tasks.

11/13/2013

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/

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

11/13/2013

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

November 13-15, 2013 | GCSAA, 1421 Research Park Drive, Lawrence, Kan.