Performance Assessment 2.0: Lessons from Large-Scale Policy & Practice

This paper offers a retrospective research study of performance assessment initiatives beginning in the 1990s up to today.  The study addresses three specific questions: 

• What were the conditions that helped sustain some of the programs? 

• What were the challenges that led to their discontinuation? 

• What are some lessons learned that might help inform current assessment initiatives that seek to integrate performance assessment into large-scale student assessment programs?