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Assessment

Rubrics

• Fair Test, Site that investigates tests and testing with a critical eye.

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• Apropriate Questions To Ask When Evaluating Tests, ERIC site
• Assessment Information, Rich resource with many links; N. West Regional Education Lab site
• The Assessment Culture, Series of articles from Education Week about the history of assessment.
• Building Rubrics
• Connecting Performance Assessment to Instruction: A Comparison of Behavioral Assessment, Mastery Learning, Curriculum-Based Measurement, and Performance Assessment, ERIC Digest
• Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments, ERIC Digest
• Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education
• A Developmental Approach to Assessment of Young Children, Lilian Katz article about appropriate assessment for young children
• Developing Educational Standards, Standards by subject area, state, etc
• Early Childhood Screens and Assessment, Bulletin board; send your questions and participate in the discussion!
• Evaluating: Grading and Scoring
• Fair Test, Site that investigates test and testing with a critical eye.
• Harvard Project Zero, Descriptions of model projects that incorporate alternative assessment strategies
• Including Students with Disabilities in Large-Scale Testing: Emerging Practices, ERIC Digest
• Kidwatching: A Naturalistic Assessment, Rationale for kidwatching and strategies
• Links to Sites That Contain Education Standards, Information about standards from Vermont, Massachusetts, Minneapolis, and other standards related info
• National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
• New Vision for the Assessment of Young Children
• On Standardized Testing
• An Overview of Portfolio Night
• Performance Assessment in Early Childhood Education: The Work Sampling System, by Samuel J. Meisels
• Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Not Necessarily! Site describes a simple, research-based assessment tool (ELSIE) designed for investigating learning style. This article contains links to everything you need to try ELSIE.
• The Portfolio and Its Use: Developmentally Appropriate Assessment of Young Children, ERIC site
• Primary Math Portfolio, Portfolio tips, setting standards, guide for judging and toolkit
• STANDARDS: THE STATES GO THEIR OWN WAYS
• Standardized Testing of Young Children 3 Through 8 Years of Age, NAEYC position statement
• Tests, Tests, Tests, Compendium of online tests
• THREE-WAY PORTFOLIO, How to report to families about student progress
• Understanding Tests and Measurement for the Parent and Advocate, LD Online site with very helpful information for anyone wanting to better understand testing and measurement
• Welcome to Alfie Kohn.Org, Links to books, articles and lectures (check out the article about standards)
• What Do Parents Want To Know About Alternative Assessment? Nice explanation of alternative assessment for parents in question and answer format
• What is your personal learning style? , Assess your own learning style or that of others; quick and easy!
• Why Rubrics, Why and how of rubrics with examples
• Why Do We Need Standards? AFT site about standards with links to other standards sites

Rubrics

• Ruminating on Rubrics, Study of rubric use in a science class.
• Rubric 1, Example of a multi-media rubric
• Language Arts and MultiMedia Rubric, Example from a school using rubrics
• A Portfolio Handbook - Standards, Rubrics, Portfolios, and Assessment, Very helpful information from the PA Dept of Ed
• Choosing a Set of Content Standards and Develop Your Performance Descriptions and Expectations
• Automating Authentic Assessment with Rubrics, Recommendations for writing rubrics and using technology to speed the process.
• Assessment and Rubrics, From Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators; nice collection of links to info on rubrics for website construction and more
• The Rubricator, Online assistance to document assessment efforts, connect assessment to standards, create rigorous and relevant students tasks and get students involved.