Company Profile
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity
Company Overview
The Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), formerly associated with the School Redesign Network at Stanford University, provides technical consulting and support to schools and districts that have committed to adopting performance-based assessment as part of a multiple-measures system for evaluating student learning and measuring school performance. SCALE contracts with schools and districts to develop assessment materials, establish and oversee scoring procedures, provide professional development to support teachers and schools engaged in the work, and conduct research to support the validity and reliability of the assessment system. One of the core principles that guide our work is that a performance assessment system should be designed to be educative for students, teachers, and schools.
SCALE is directed by Dr. Raymond Pecheone, who has over 30 years of expertise and experience with performance assessment, and is advised by Professor Linda Darling-Hammond. Members of the SCALE team led the development, field testing and validation of the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), adopted by over 31 universities and other teacher credential programs to meet California licensing and accreditation requirements, and continue to administer the assessment. SCALE currently leads the national Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium (TPAC), which is field testing a teaching performance assessment in over 100 IHEs across 26 states in 2011-12. Over the last eight years, SCALE has supported a number of student performance assessment initiatives, including collaborations with the Envision Schools, the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network, the Ohio Department of Education, the New York City Department of Education, the Gates Foundation Literacy Design Collaborative, the Hewlett Foundation's Deeper Learning Initiative, and the CCSSO's network of seven Innovation Lab states.
SCALE has a small staff with deep experience and internal capacity to provide technical consulting in performance assessment design and implementation, and also relies on partnerships with external consultants who provide content-specific expertise in the design and implementation of performance assessments, including the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative (David Foster), Inquiry by Design (John McMillan, Dennie Wolfe), and Daisy Martin (Center for History and New Media at George Mason University). SCALE is also advised by Dr. Edward Haertel at Stanford University, Dr. Andrew Ho at Harvard University, and Dr. David Pearson at UC Berkeley, who have deep expertise in the fields of psychometrics, performance assessment, and literacy assessment.
More information may be found on SCALE's homepage http://scale.stanford.edu.
Notable Clients
New York City Department of Education, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, Ohio Department of Education, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Flora & William Hewlett Foundation
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
SCALE has designed, field tested, and validated several major performance assessment systems that are in use on a wide scale across the country, including the Performance Assessment for California Teacher (PACT), approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing for initial licensure; student performance assessments used by the Envision Schools (San Francisco Bay Area), Asia Society ISSN schools, the Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project, and the New York City Public Schools; and the national Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA). SCALE prides itself in "starting small to go big".
Benefits
Health Improvement Program classes, Continuing education tuition reimbursement, 50% off tuition for children attending Stanford University (college), free access to Stanford University libraries and athletic facilities, priority for certain childcare centers on campus, tons of events on campus everyday!