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The Web Alignment Tool

April 23, 2007

Some 25 states are using WCER’s online Web Alignment Tool to guide and automate the process of aligning the state’s education standards with its standardized tests. District and state education staff, for example, use results from alignment analysis to refine standards and to identify more appropriate assessment items. The alignment of expectations for student learning (standards) with assessments for measuring students’ attainment of these expectations is essential for an effective standards-based education system. Too often, education systems are fragmented, so teachers and students get mixed messages about goals and expectations. In the absence of clear principles of alignment, learning expectations can be lowered for some students while being raised for others, thus creating potential inequities. More information is available here.