This spring, his middle school students took the Smarter Balanced pilot assessment. (ascd.org)
The research, carried out for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) by UCL Institute of Education, carried out in - depth interviews with staff in five primary schools piloting the assessments and questioned 1,131 NUT and ATL members in a snapshot survey. (educationbusinessuk.net)
SMARTER Balanced will determine its cutoff scores for passing or failing after piloting the assessments in spring 2014. (governing.com)