Sub-Topics 2002 2006 Authentic Assessment Portfolios Program Evaluation Rubrics School Report Cards Also Try Math By Grade Level and Standard (Awesome Library) School Improvement Lists Alternative Assessment - A Rationale (BOCES 2 - Thomas) Provides a rationale for alternative assessment and some suggestions for approaching it. 1-04 Assessing Hands-On Science (BOCES 2) Provides organized links. Elementary student level. 1-04 Education Statistics (US Dept of Education) Contains over 2,600 tables, charts, and texts on education in the USA. Testing - By State (Eduhound.com) Provides testing information for each state in the United States. 4-02 Materials Aligning Standards Across the Curriculum Educational Testing Service Provides testing information. 10-09 Quizzes by Teachers for Students (FunBrain.com) Provides a place for teachers to place a quiz and have the students take it online. Only students with your password may take the test. 3-05 Papers Academic Progress by State (National Education Goals Panel) Provides state by state comparisons of student academic achievement in 1988. 7-99 Certification - Teacher Certification (Mining Co. - Walker) Provides information on teacher certification by state. Evaluation Handbook (W.K. Kellogg Foundation) Provides a comprehensive evaluation manual, by one of the world's largest foundations focusing on youth and education issues. Uses PDF format. 09-10 IES National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) "The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education." 04-10  Interpretation Problems of Age and Grade Equivalents (PearsonAssessments.com) "Because of the inherent psychometric problems associated with age and grade equivalents that seriously limit their reliability and validity, these scores should not be used for making diagnostic or placement decisions (Bracken, 1988; Reynolds, 1981)." 08-06 NWREL Evaluation and Assessment No Child Left Behind Act (Thomas) Provides H.R. 1, new education legislation enacted in January 2002. The Act focuses heavily on improvement of assessment and then, if a school fails to meet standards, alternatives for parents. The official title of the act is "To close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind." 1-02 No Child Left Behind Act - Resources for Schools (American Association of School Administrators) Provides Web sites to help schools implement best practices. 6-02 Oral Communication Assessment (NWREL) Provides a rubric for assessing oral communication. In PDF format. 9-01 Program Evaluation Standards (Western Michigan University - The Joint Committee for Standards for Educational Evaluation) Provides the standards for program evaluation studies. 3-03 School Dropout Statistics (Intercultural Development Research Association) Summarizes national school dropout statistics. 2-02 Science - Evaluating Hands-On Experiences (NCREL - Haury and Rillero) Provides teachers with methods and a rubric for evaluating hands-on science activities. Six Plus One Traits of Writing Assessment Provides samples of student writing and shows how they were scored, along with comments. Also provides access to a PDF version of the scoring rubric for Six Traits plus 1. Test Bias - Examples (NWREL - Kuykendall) Provides examples of test bias for persons of diverse minority groups. 3-02 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Voluntary National Tests (US Dept of Education) Purchase Resources Plagiarism Prevention (Plagiarism.com) Provides an analysis of research papers and essays to determine if the student copied part or all of it from an existing Web resource. Sometimes visitors misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, or plagerism. 4-00 Standards -Classroom Math Standards (Awesome Library) -Classroom Math Standards - Elementary Level by Grade (Awesome Library) -Classroom Math Standards - Middle-High School Level by Subject (Awesome Library) Arts - National Assessment of Progress (NAEP) Provides the Nation's Report Card, an assessment of educational progress in the United States. 6-01 California Standards-Based Social Studies for K-12 (Schools of California) Provides standards and assessments organized by the California SCORE Social Studies Framework for K-12. Certification Requirements by Industry (National Skills Standards Institute Provides the specific certification standards required, by industry. 10-09 Developing Content Standards (Consortium for Policy Research in Education) Discusses issues related to developing curriculum standards. Dated 1993. 10-09 Early Childhood Program Accreditation "For more than 80 years, the National Association for the Education of Young Children has worked to raise the quality of programs for all children from birth through age eight. A major part of NAEYC's efforts to improve early childhood education is through different systems of accreditation for programs that are committed to meeting national standards of quality...." 10-09 Science Standards (National Academy of Sciences) Includes examples. 4-02 Sites Offering Academic and Skill Standards

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