Meaningful, timely and precise measures of student learning assessments - provide critical data and feedback to determine whether educational goals are being met. Colorado assessments are changing in order to accurately assess student mastery relative to the Colorado Academic Standards.

This Guide to Test Interpretation has been prepared to provide an overview of the reporting and use of results from the 2011 CSAP assessments. It is intended to help educators apply test report data to the needs of individual students, schools, and districts.

Colorados Race to the Top Monitoring Plan defines strategies for both programmatic and fiscal monitoring at the state and subgrantee levels with respect to implementation of their approved scopes of work.

The 2012 School Finance Act required the CDE to issue a competitive request for proposals (RFP) for state purchase of an early literacy assessment tool that teachers may use to obtain real-time assessments of the reading skill levels of students in kindergarten through third grade. The intent was to support state purchase of software that provides individualized assessments with immediate results, stores and analyzes those results, and recommends...