Education World – Nicole Gorman
“A new report from American Institutes for Research titled National Benchmarks for State Achievement Standards has found that achievements standards across the nation’s states still vary greatly. “This report uses national benchmarking as a common metric to examine state achievement standards and compare how high these standards are compared to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) achievement levels. It also compares how much students are expected to learn in some states with how much they are expected to learn in other states,” the report says. Specifically, it compared standards in states affiliated with the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced), the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC), ACT Aspire as well as standards in states not affiliated with either three.”(more)