About
The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment (MCIEA) is a partnership of eight MA public school districts and their local teacher unions, joined together to create a fair and effective accountability system that offers a more dynamic picture of student learning and school quality than a single standardized test. MCIEA seeks to increase achievement for all students, close prevailing opportunity gaps among subgroups, and prepare a diversity of students for college, career, and life.
Formed in 2016, the Consortium believes in a new accountability model that champions students, educators, and families. This model better reflects what the community wants to know about the quality of our schools and learning experiences. MCIEA’s system focuses on a school quality framework that includes multiple measures of student engagement, student achievement, and school environment, and emphasizes performance assessments in the classroom to measure students' deeper mastery of content and skills. Teachers are at the heart of improving student learning and are directly engaged in all aspects of the work.
MCIEA’s governing board is comprised of superintendents and teacher union presidents from Attleboro, Boston, Lowell, Revere, Somerville, Milford, Wareham, and Winchester. MCIEA partners with the Center for Collaborative Education and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is funded in part by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MCIEA’s governing board is comprised of superintendents and teacher union presidents from Attleboro, Boston, Lowell, Revere, Somerville, Milford, Wareham, and Winchester. MCIEA partners with the Center for Collaborative Education and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is funded in part by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Learn More
- Read our MCIEA Fact Sheet to learn more about our work so far.
- Learn about some of the schools we're working with
- Check out WBUR's interview with Jessica Tang, President-elect of the Boston Teachers Union, where she talks about standardized testing and the work MCIEA is doing to advance alternative models of assessment in Massachusetts.
- Visit our resources page for articles and white papers about MCIEA's work.
- Watch our performance assessment video (below) and hear directly from MCIEA educators who are working together to redefine how we measure what our students know and can do.