With the goal of re-envisioning the state’s assessment and accountability system to support improvements in the rigor and quality of curriculum and instruction, to help students prepare for college, and to signal college readiness and careers, Ohio developed an assessment and standardized assessments. Teacher-generated, curriculum-embedded assessments reflect the ongoing curriculum and reduce the system that reflects a balance among teacher-generated tendency to view assessment as divorced from the instructional program, while the inclusion of standardized assessments in the system provides a common metric for assessing student progress and for comparing results among schools and buildings. At the initiation of the project, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) leadership articulated several ways in which performance assessments might fit within the Ohio assessment and accountability systems.
