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The question usually arrives in an RFP, or from a state reviewer, or from a district curriculum director who has been told to document evidence for everything she buys: what ESSA level is your research? And you do have research — a pilot report, a white paper, a conference paper, a set of growth numbers…

An assessment is only as useful as the decision it informs — and the only way to know whether a tool informs that decision well is to test it against something independent. Validation is the unglamorous work of checking whether a screener predicts what it claims to predict, whether its cut scores sort students correctly,…

Assessment is one of those words in education that can mean almost anything — a quick exit ticket at the end of class, a state standardized test, a reading screener given three times a year, an algorithm-driven platform that adjusts difficulty in real time. They’re all assessments, but they serve very different purposes. Treating them…