2015: STATES ADMINISTER SMARTER BALANCED TESTS FOR FIRST TIME

More than 7 million students across the nation take Smarter Balanced summative assessments for the first time in spring 2015. The assessments provide data to member states to accurately describe both student achievement and student growth to inform program evaluation and school, district, and state accountability systems. The end-of-year test consists of two parts: a computer adaptive test and performance tasks.