Category: History of Cognia

From the 2018 merger of AdvancED, the leader in continuous improvement and the world’s largest accrediting body, and Measured Progress, an innovator in standards-based assessment, the new organization Cognia is born. It offers unique and far-reaching services to educators and institutions, focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. Dr. Mark..Read More…

AdvancED launches new Accreditation Performance Standards and the Continuous Improvement System (CIS), a data-informed school improvement and effectiveness framework, building on accreditation services to support education institutions’ efforts to create a culture of continuous improvement….

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education awards its highly anticipated new program, “Next Generation MCAS,” to Measured Progress, continuing a partnership of more than 30 years….

AdvancED launches the Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool® (eleot®), a student-focused framework to gather objective information about what happens in classrooms. Our next-generation school improvement platform, eProve™ becomes available to members to centralize and align their improvement efforts….

Measured Progress releases a new interim and summative assessment program for districts and states. Maine adopts it as its statewide summative assessment, continuing a partnership begun in 1983. We introduce Assessment Services for district assessments and offer STEM Gauge® formative resources….

AdvancED launches a pilot program for STEM Certification to test the content validity of the Standards and Indicators and the effectiveness, pliability, and reliability of the certification process. Today, Cognia offers STEM certification worldwide….

Measured Progress wins several of the contracts for the newly funded assessment consortia: PARCC (Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) and Smarter Balanced….

The Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) joins AdvancED as the third accreditation division providing services to institutions across seven states. AdvancED becomes the largest accrediting body in the world….

Measured Progress introduces its first formative assessment offerings for districts with an item bank, testlets, and benchmark assessments….

AdvancED releases the Adaptive System of School Improvement Support Tools (ASSIST™), a web-based platform that merges process, content, and technology for end-to-end management of school improvement and accreditation processes….