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Dr. Forte publishes commissioned white paper with Council of Chief State School Officers Collaborative
The Technical Issues in Large Scale Assessment State Collaborative on Assessments and Student Standards (TILSA SCASS) of the Council of Chief State School Officers...
edCount Conducted Workshop on Applications of an Alignment Evaluation Framework at the Annual Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA) Conference on October 18-20, 2017
Based on Dr. Ellen Forte’s publications on the topic of alignment evaluation (e.g., 2013, 2017), this workshop provided participants with solid grounding in alignment...
Enhanced Assessment Grant (EAG) Award for Strengthening Claims-based Interpretations and Uses of Local and Large-scale Science Assessment Scores (SCILLSS) Project
edCount is collaborating with lead state, Nebraska, and two other states (Montana, and Wyoming) and three partner organizations (ACS Ventures, SRI International, and...
edCount Presented Information on SCILLSS Project at the National Council for Measurement in Education (NCME) Special Conference on September 14, 2017
edCount led a panel discussion on the topic of strengthening claims-based interpretations and uses of local and large-scale science assessment scores at the 2017 NCME...
edCount Successfully Supports Georgia in Alignment Evaluation and Peer Review
edCount recently completed a comprehensive alignment evaluation of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social...
edCount Completes Multi-Year Project with the Regional Education Laboratory Mid-Atlantic (REL-MA)
edCount recently completed a multi-year project (2012-2016) in collaboration with the REL Mid-Atlantic to host the Educator Effectiveness Webinar Series and the Ask an...
edCount Completes Validity and Process Evaluation for Development of National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) Alternate Assessment System
The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) was a multi-state, multi-organizational consortium that was awarded a General Supervision Enhancement Grant (GSEG) in...
edCount Joins Alpine Testing Solutions in Independent Verification of the Psychometric Validity of Florida’s Assessment
On June 23, 2015, Alpine Testing Solutions announced its partnership with edCount to conduct an independent verification of the validity of the Florida Standards...
edCount Selected to Write K-2 ELA Curriculum for the Rapid Prototype Phase of the K-12 OER Collaborative
In a press release dated April 16, 2015, The Learning Accelerator, an education non-profit focusing on implementing blended learning, announced edCount as one of ten...
edCount and REL Mid-Atlantic Present the 2015 Educator Effectiveness Series
On May 7, 2015, edCount and REL Mid-Atlantic will collaborate with Jonathan Cohen, President of the National School Climate Center, to present Assessing School Climate....
Paper Authored by Elizabeth Towles-Reeves and other edCount Staff Accepted for Publication in Exceptional Children
In July 2014, Exceptional Children accepted the paper “Where students with the most significant cognitive disabilities are taught: Implications for general curriculum...
Ellen Forte Discusses the Hispanic Vote and ELs on Thompson Title I-derland Blog
edCount president Dr. Ellen Forte served as a featured guest blogger today on Title I-derland, an education blog maintained by Thompson Publishing's Education...