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Standards and Assessments

Student Achievement and School Accountability Conference
October 2002

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Text (slide 21):

Local Assessments

If local assessments are used, a State must:

• Document that all local assessments used for school accountability
  • Are equivalent to one another in content coverage, difficulty and quality
  • Have comparable validity and reliability with respect to student subgroups
  • Provide unbiased, rational, and consistent determinations of annual progress of schools and districts