The Study Of Next Generation Assessment Systems Aligned With Common Core State Standards In American

Since the 1990 s,Standards-based reforms have become widespread across the United States.Those states who reduced the educational standards for avoiding the discipline of The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in the United States.For above reasons,National Governors Association and The Council of Chief State School Officers claimed: to enforce the Common Core State Standards for K-12 students in June 2,2010,in order to insure the competitiveness of the USA,which lays a solid foundation for each student in the future.Forty-two states,the District of Columbia,four territories,and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the Common Core State Standards.On September 2,2010,due to the demands of promoting the implementation of the Common Core State Standards,the U.S.Department of Education announced the winners of the $350 million Race to the Top Comprehensive Assessment Systems Competition: the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers(PARCC)and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium(SBAC).The task of PARCC and SBAC is to develop and implement tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards which is called Next Generation Assessment Systems.Next Generation Assessment Systems has managed to move to full implementation in the United States.In 2001,China Started the new curriculum reform.People has raised higher requirements of the quality education,So how to establish standard-based student achievement assessment on the basic of the introduction of other countries experience is cause for concern in China.In this context,studying the Next Generation Assessment Systems which is base Common Core State Standards,and discussing how to develop and implement the Next Generation Assessment Systems could offers some valuable advice on our academic assessment reform.The paper is divided into eight parts: The first part is introduction of this paper,which describes the reasons for selecting this topic,key concept,main content,and reviews related literatures.Chapter 1 mainly analyzes the applicability of the multiple-streams theory and the theory of policy process on the basis of a comprehensive interpretation of policy process theories.This chapter applies the multiple-streams theory which includes problems stream,policy stream and political stream to explores the real motivation of developing the Next Generation Assessment Systems.Chapter 2 mainly illustrates the goals and the content framework of assessment system.The content framework of PARCC assessment system includes binary assessment structure;English and math cored subject assessment;the partnership resource center;text complexity diagnostic;tool options for assessment and so on.Chapter 3 mainly analyses how to develop the the Next Generation Assessment Systems,including Race to the Top Assessment Program planning and implementation,the developers of Next Generation Assessment Systems,the approach and procedure of assessment development.This chapter also illustrates the content framework of Next Generation Assessment Systems.The content framework of Next Generation Assessment Systems includes the goal,content,tools of assessment,the structure of assessment system and the reporting of assessment results.On this basis,this thesis compares PARCC assessment system and SBAC assessment system,summarizes main features of Next Generation Assessment Systems.Chapter 4 mainly analyses the adopting of Next Generation Assessment Systems.In order to describe the adopting of Next Generation Assessment Systems as clearly as possible,this part chooses Massachusetts and California as cases.Chapter 5 mainly analyses the implementation of Next Generation Assessment Systems.The paper summarizes the field test and full implementation of Next Generation Assessment Systems.Chapter 6 investigates the implementation effect of Next Generation Assessment Systems based on the relevant research conclusions and statistics,it can be found that the implementation of Next Generation Assessment Systems played a positive role.However,the Next Generation Assessment Systems implementation also has some problems and deficiencies.Chapter 7 mainly Synthesizes and summarizes main features of Next Generation Assessment Systems.It also offers some valuable advice on the study of our academic assessment system.