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About AchieveCreated by the nation’s governors and business leaders, Achieve is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academicstandards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, careers and citizenship.Achieve has helped more than half the states benchmark their academic standards, tests and accountability systems against thebest examples in the United States and around the world. Achieve also serves as a significant national voice for quality in standards-basededucation reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits to sustain supportfor higher standards and achievement for all of America’s schoolchildren.In 2005, Achieve co-sponsored the National Education Summit on High Schools. Forty-five governors attended the Summit along withcorporate CEOs and K–12 and postsecondary leaders. The Summit was successful in making the case to the governors and business andeducation leaders that our schools are not adequately preparing students for college and 21st-century jobs and that aggressive actionwill be needed to address the preparation gap. As a result of the Summit, 34 states have since joined with Achieve to form the AmericanDiploma Project Network—a coalition of states committed to aligning high school standards, assessments, graduation requirements andaccountability systems with the demands of college and the workplace.For more information, visit Achieve’s Web site at www.achieve.org.Copyright © November 2008 Achieve, Inc. All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopy, recording, or any information or storage retrieval system, without permission from Achieve.Transforming Statewide High School Assessment Systems: A Guide for State Policymakers 2
Table of ContentsWhy States Need To Transform High School Testing: A New Vision for Assessment..............Page 4A New Vision for the High School Assessment System: Four Core Principlesfor College and Career Readiness...............................................................................................Page 6Core Principle One: “Proficient” Should Mean Prepared: BuildingCollege- and Career-Ready Anchor Assessments.....................................................................Page 11Core Principle Two: Making Tests Matter Beyond K–12: Opening Doors toHigher Education and Employment Using High School Tests................................................Page 25Core Principle Three: Not Just More Assessment—Better Assessment: Measuringthe Full Range of College and Career Readiness Skills and Supporting RicherInstruction.................................................................................................................................Page 32Core Principle Four: Streamlining Testing Time and Costs....................................................Page 41Getting from Here to There: Key Questions to Inform State Action ......................................Page 44A “Decision Tree” for State Policymakers................................................................................Page 48Acknowledgments.....................................................................................................................Page 53Endnotes....................................................................................................................................Page 54Transforming Statewide High School Assessment Systems: A Guide for State Policymakers 3
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