State Assessment Market Trends

Inquiry Overview

An education content provider was interested in conducting exploratory research on formative and summative assessment trends in K-12 education.

Key Questions

• What are the trends in formative and summative assessment at the state level? What are the possible drivers?


• What are the trends in norm-referenced assessment? What are the possible drivers?


• What are the state budgets for assessment products?


• What assessments are being administered in the 10 largest states? Are they formative or summative? Are they norm-referenced or criterion-referenced?


• What is the outlook for upgrades in each of the 10 largest states?

Methodology

For this custom inquiry, Eduventures reached out to K-12 assessment experts and state assessment officers to get information about the current trends. Eduventures also conducted a secondary scan of state Web sites. Eduventures supplemented external data with in-house data focusing on the K-12 assessment market.