Regarding assessment, they are absolutely separate things.
When the common core official website indicates that
common core standards were reviewed and found to be a solid basis for development of standards-based assessments, in what way do you find the standardized testing to be unrelated to common core standards? Where do you get your information from?
Do you find evidence in the text of the official common core website which indicates that...
1) the creation of standards-based assessments was not anticipated and planned for when common core standards were developed?
2) the creation of standards-based assessments is beyond the intended uses/purposes of the common core standards?
3) the common core standards developers decry the administration of standards-based assessments for students? By contrast,
this post upthread shows evidence from the text that...
1) standards-based assessments were anticipated by the developers of common core standards,
2) the standards were found to be a solid basis for developing the standards-based assessments,
3) the availability and use of standards-based assessments as a measuring tool is a benefit.
Without the development of the common core standards, the vast standards-based assessments would not exist. The development of the common core standards drove the development of the standards-based assessment tools; they are not unrelated.
