The True Costs of Low-Quality Assessments
The difference between high-quality and low-quality assessment is both dramatic and consequential, and educators need to understand the systemic impact of quality—especially in today’s environment
Start Strong Assessment Going Statewide in New Jersey
New Meridian’s Start Strong assessment is being rolled out statewide in New Jersey, a system with hundreds of districts, thousands of schools and more than 1 million students.
Start Strong Assessment Gets Good Grades in New Jersey
New Meridian’s Start Strong Assessment, a beginning-of-year test that takes a single class period and delivers quick feedback, received high marks from educators in the Garden State.
Bringing Local Agency and Voice to Design Fair Assessments
A state’s academic learning standards not only define what students should know and be able to do at each grade level, they signal a society’s values. Part tradition, part research, part social construct, and part political process, they define what we collectively believe the next generation of students must know not only to succeed personally […]
The Equity Paradox
How do we weigh the challenges of testing this spring against the need to initiate a years-long recovery effort that will certainly require good data?
New Meridian Offers Framework to Review 3D Science Assessment Items
As part of its ongoing effort to provide states with high-quality science assessment tools, New Meridian is releasing a universal framework states can use to review and evaluate test items for science assessments. The New Meridian Framework for Quality Review of NGSS Science Assessment Items, based on well-known industry research, walks states through how to […]
We Need State Testing Data to Address the COVID Slide
So many of the established routines of our shared civic life have been suspended. While we wait hopefully for a vaccine that appears to be just around the corner, new COVID cases are spiking, lockdowns continue, unemployment benefits are expiring, and most of our schools remain closed to in-person learning. Our lives feel suspended. And […]