Stanford University

The Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) provides technical consulting and support to schools and districts that use performance-based assessment for evaluating student learning and measuring school performance. In partnership with the RAND Corporation, SCALE will develop metrics of deeper learning competencies used when students complete, display, and defend complex projects. This work is based on a pilot that explored how to collect of evidence of student behaviors via materials they post in online learning management systems. Expanding the use of hard-to-measure deeper learning competencies will require evidence of the feasibility and utility of assessments.