The K-2 Assessment Consortium is a Connecticut State Department of Education (CT SDE) initiative that is managed by Capitol Region Education Council’s (CREC) Institute for Teaching and Learning.  Through state funding all partner and supported districts were invited to participate in the consortium during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. 

The purpose of the consortium was to create developmentally appropriate assessments that would align with the CT State Standards in mathematics and science for kindergarten through grade 2.

23 Districts and 5 Regional Education Service Centers (RESC) participated in the 2-year project.  Outcomes from this first two years of the consortium included:

• Investigation of existing assessments nationally and within the state
• Creation of an assessment evaluation rubric to determine whether an assessment was developmentally appropriate, easy to use, evidence and research based and informs instructional decisions
• Creation of an assessment task format and 0-2 scoring system for each task
• Creation of K- 2 math and science assessment tasks correlated to the Common Core State Standards and Connecticut GLEs
• Classroom piloting of all developed assessments (13 districts, 467 teachers and over 7,000 students)
• Creation of the website to house accepted assessment tasks