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Still Learning from the Past: Drawing on California's CLAS Experience to Inform Assessment of the Common Core. Policy and Practice Brief
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Knudson, Joel; Hannan, Stephanie; O'Day, Jennifer; Castro, Marina – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2015
The Common Core State Standards represent an exciting step forward for California, and for the nation as a whole, in supporting instruction that can better prepare students for college and career success. Concurrent with the transition to the new standards, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), of which California is a governing…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Measurement, Educational Assessment
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of State Assessment in California, 1993-96.
Kirst, Michael W.; Mazzeo, Christopher – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
The California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) was developed in 1991 to align the state's testing system to curriculum content and improve measurement of student, school, and district performance. CLAS was discontinued because of tension between political and technical factors, key stakeholders' divergent priorities and goals, and virulent…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education
The Rise and Fall of a Statewide Assessment System.
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Dudley, Martha – English Journal, 1997
Details the history of California's experience with large-scale writing assessment. Describes the introduction, development, and scoring of the California Assessment Program, later renamed the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS). Discusses controversies over removal of certain writing prompts and objections to CLAS. Notes that funding for…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Politics of Education, Program Descriptions