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CONSORTIA
DOLLARS FOR
COMMON-CORE
TESTING
The two main consortia
designing common-core
tests-the Partnership for
Assessment of Readiness
for College and Careers
and the Smarter Balanced
Assessment Consortium-
have collectively received
$360 million in federal Race
to the Top funds to develop
the exams.
The two consortia estimate
that they have awarded a
combined $305 million of
that money to testing vendors
and other organizations
to date. This chart shows
prime contracts awarded to
companies and organizations
with federal funding, but does
not show subcontractors hired
to help carry out that work.
$16.2M
Test-engine development/delivery/
CAT simulations, test administration
$2.7M
Test administration for pilot test
$8.2M
Formative assessment
$5.3M
Report development
AMPLIFY
$20.5M
Sustainability cost
modeling
$53.7M
Item/task development for operational tests,
project management, scoring, item review,
standards alignment, and other tasks
$18.5M
Item/task writing/review for pilot
$358K
Initial achievement level descriptors
McGRAW-HILL
EDUCATION CTB
$72.5M
$4.8M
Test administration/services for field test
$4.3M
Psychometric services
$1.5M
Test and CAT specifications
NOTES
NOT SHOWN IN THE CHART: The potentially
huge amount of testing work being paid
for by the 24 states, at last count, that
are either not giving consortia tests or are
undecided about the tests they will give.
The chart also does not include contracts
given by individual Smarter Balanced
states for administering those exams-
work the consortium has chosen to
leave to individual states.
Dollar figures were provided by PARCC/
Smarter Balanced, as were, in most cases,
brief contract descriptions; vendors' actual
duties may go well beyond descriptions
provided. Contract amounts can change
over time if the consortia require more work.
Dollar figures have been rounded.
SOURCE: Education Week, PARCC,
and Smarter Balanced.
Communications
services provider
Item specifications
$2M
IT systems architecture
$930K
Accessibility/accommodations
policy guidelines
$739K
Item authorizing/item pool
NATIONAL MATH &
SCIENCE INITIATIVE
Standard setting
and communication
services
$1.8M
Item authoring/item repository
MEASUREMENT
INCORPORATED
$5.4M
PACIFIC METRICS
(recently acquired by ACT)
$9.5M
PARCC INC.
$8M
PARCC project management
$26.3M
Item-development services
$26M
PARCC assessment administration
$10M
$705K
IT readiness
Translations
TRI-LIN
$9.2M
WEST ED
Project-management partner
$11M
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Diagnostic assessment
$429K
PEARSON
$63M
SBAC/PARCC readiness tool
$4.4M
Facilitating meetings of
educators, college faculty
IN
$7.7M
PARCC tech architecture,
interoperability standards
$
MEASURED
PROGRESS
$3.7M
NATIONAL CENTER
FOR THE IMPROVEMENT
OF ASSESSMENT
$150K
GMMB
$2.6M
MEASURED
PROGRESS/ETS
$1.5M
Technical support
for assessment
development
$32M
ETS
$42.6M
EPIC
(NOW LEO LEARNING)
$627K
Professionaldevelopment
modules
Item-development services
ASSESSMENT
SOLUTIONS GROUP
$80K
THE CENTER: RESOURCES FOR
TEACHING AND LEARNING
$1.5M
COUNCIL FOR AID
TO EDUCATION
$1.5M
Speaking and listening
assessments
EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT
CENTER
$680K
K-12 formative
assessment
BREAKTHROUGH
TECHNOLOGIES
$10M
AMERICAN
INSTITUTES FOR
RESEARCH
$18.9M
$7M
Data management,
reporting system
Project
ACHIEVE
$14.3M
management
Develop testing
platform for diagnostic
and other assessments
K-12
formative
assessment
PARCC
SMARTER BALANCED
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