About Project 2061 Begun in 1985 when Halley's Comet last appeared, Project 2061 takes its name from the year when the comet will again be visible from Earth. Both documents have had a major impact on education, providing the foundation for national and state science education standards. To assist educators in meeting science literacy goals in their own districts, Project 2061 is now developing a coordinated set of reform tools. For full information on available publications and services, visit the Project 2061 web site. The purpose of the procedure is to determine whether specific assessment tasks focus on ideas or skills in benchmarks and standards.
Reviewers examine each assessment task including the scoring guides or rubrics.
If there is a content match with benchmarks and standards, reviewers proceed to the next step, in which they examine other assessment characteristics that, if present, will increase the likelihood that the assessment will actually find out what students know and can do.