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This amounted to an opportunity to reimagine and redefine K-12 assessment and accountability alongside the students, families, teachers, and school leaders most familiar with the possibilities and pitfalls of our current approach.  \nThe Innovations in Assessment and New Measure Grant Program, founded in 2020 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, and Education First, was developed to support this work.  \nInnovations in Assessment 3  \nThe grant program supports new assessments that measure learning across multiple domains and capture student readiness for college or career, while continuing to provide the detailed data that an equitable approach to accountability requires. The grant program also supports a new strategy to create assessments: one that uses human-centered design principles, to more broadly share planning and decision-making power and build on the expertise of the people most proximate to the problem.  \nFive grantees are developing new measures to assess student learning across multiple domains. In contrast to traditional, top-down program design, these grantees are engaged with this work at the grassroots level, with a particular focus on how institutional, systemic, or ideological biases influence the experiences of some individuals and groups. These grantees are using human-centered equitable design, which builds on the expertise and experiences of students, families, and educators (informed by Christine Ortiz’s methodology1) .  \nThe experiences of these grantees can inform assessments that more fully meet the needs of students, families, teachers, and school leaders. While no one test will perfectly assess all that we need to know about student learning, a richer menu of options and base of knowledge rooted in the direct experiences of the people most proximate to the problem can support the high-quality measures of learning that all students and educators deserve. Such measures can capture the breadth of student achievement, with explicit connections to the broad range of knowledge and skills that nurture thriving adults across diverse cultures and communities.  \nEquitable Design inAction  \nExploring the Problem  \nJanuary to May 2020  \nDeveloping  \nInclusive Solutions  \nMay to November 2020  \nPrototyping Innovations  \nJanuary to December 2021  \nBuilding Buy-In and Pilot Planning  \nJanuary to June 2022  \nGrantees defined the people most proximate to the problem (PPP)—students, families, teachers, leaders—and engaged them in empathy interviews, open-ended conversations about their experiences, and survey research. This expanded their understanding of the end-user experience, their biases, and power dynamics.  \nTeams reflected on the historic context and engaged in rootcause analysis to explore the challenges that surfaced.  \n\n| Grantees engaged in multiple rounds of ideation as a team and with PPP. By ceding power to end-users, grantees envisioned new approaches to assessment that put the needs of traditionally underserved groups at the center.\u003Cbr>Teams created a theory of action and developed plans to test prototypes, or pieces of their solution. By designing atthe margins, this process helped dismantle assumptions about what, why, and how outcomes should be measured. | Grantees developed “little bets,” aspects of their solution they wanted to test with end-users to refine their innovations. Grantees used rapid-cycle prototyping, quick testing with a low-cost and easy method, to test multiple little bets with end-users, which led to changes and improvements to their assessment solution.\u003Cbr>These quick tests, rather than fully developed pilots, allowed grantees to think by doing, gr","cbCaimxziq5ZxmUn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimxziq5ZxmUn","pdf",4395409,"English","# Introduction\n## Grant program purpose and approach\n## Equitable design in action\n## Exploring the problem\n## Developing inclusive solutions\n## Prototyping innovations\n## Building buy-in and pilot planning\n## Testing as we go: through-year assessments","[{\"question\":\"Why did Texas rethink standardized testing and accountability?\",\"answer\":\"Covid-19 caused states and school networks to pause traditional once-a-year exams and reconsider the role and influence of those tests in K-12 accountability.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the Innovations in Assessment grant program support?\",\"answer\":\"It supports new assessments measuring learning across multiple domains, capturing student readiness for college or career, and providing the detailed data needed for equitable accountability.\"},{\"question\":\"How do grantees develop their assessment solutions?\",\"answer\":\"They use human-centered equitable design by engaging students, families, teachers, and leaders in empathy interviews, open-ended conversations, surveys, prototyping, and rapid-cycle testing through “little bets.”\"}]","Innovations in Assessment - Texas-case-study-9.22 | PDF",1790784916,25]