Through A Looking Glass: Lessons Learned And Future Directions For Performance Assessment

This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large-scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability. Lessons from Connecticut, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont help to indicate promising directions for future efforts to integrate performance assessment in state systems of assessment.