Jacqueline E. King, PhD, Director of Higher Education Collaboration, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Laura Slover, Chief Executive Officer, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) 

Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education

Beginning this month, millions of students across the country are participating in an unprecedented event: field tests for new assessments that measure student performance against the Common Core State Standards. These field tests will provide vital information about the quality of assessments that is necessary before they are implemented in classrooms in more than thirty-five states next year. What can students, parents, and teachers expect from the field test? What do the consortia hope to learn from it?

In this webinar, leaders of the two consortia, Jacqueline King and Laura Slover, will describe plans for the field tests as well as other recent developments by the consortia to prepare for implementation in during the 2014-15 school year. Bob Wise will moderate the discussion. Panelists will also address questions submitted by webinar viewers from across the country.

Register at all4ed.org/webinar/mar-20-2014/