Sub-Topics 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 Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing Education Statistics (US Dept of Education) Contains over 2,600 tables, charts, and texts on education in the USA. Education Statistics - 1996 (US Dept of Education) Contains digests of statistics from 1996. Education Statistics - Projections to 2006 (US Dept of Education) Contains projections of statistics to 2006. Compiled in 1996. 2-00 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 News -08-30-06 SAT Scores Take Biggest Drop in 31 Years (ABC News) "The high school class of 2006, the first to take the new SAT that now includes a writing test, recorded the sharpest drop in SAT scores in 31 years." 08-06 -09-04-06 Girls Gain Higher Writing Scores Than Boys on SAT (ABC News) "While the average reading and math scores on the SAT fell again this year, the test results showed a new gain for girls." "For the first time in a generation, girls outperformed boys on one section of the exam, edging them out by 11 points on the writing portion of the test. The results raise new questions about gender, learning and a test that has become an American rite of passage." 09-06 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 SAT Test to be Revised (USA Today - Marklein) Describes plans to revise the SAT to in math, reading, and writing. 6-02 Papers Academic Progress by State (National Education Goals Panel) Provides state by state comparisons of student academic achievement in 1988. 7-99 Accountability - Evaluating Accountability Systems (Phi Delta Kappa International) "According to RAND, what we are seeing in states leading the accountability charge -- Texas and Florida, for instance -- should also give us pause. To wit:" "students are becoming discouraged and competitive, rather than cooperative teachers are becoming alienated and are narrowing curricula to teach to tests administrators are becoming number-obsessed and are overspending on tests and other purchases peripheral to teaching and learning policy makers are becoming misinformed about learning and focused on the politics of perception, and communities are also becoming misinformed, as well as distrustful of schools and teachers." "The fundamental problem is that these reformers focus...on designing controls rather than developing capacity. In other words, instead of promoting and investing in the expertise of teachers and trusting them to do their job, most state systems focus their resources on building remote-control systems...." "And here is the point our present accountability hawks and our grassroots activists miss: systematically creating conditions of possibility for knowledgeable professionals to practice their art adaptively must be a crucial feature of any lasting education reform. Good teaching here and there is not enough. Securing meaningful learning opportunities for our own students or decent working conditions for ourselves and our own colleagues is not enough. We -- educators, parents, and other stakeholders who want meaningful education for all students -- need to work together for structural change as well." "Instead of asking, 'Does this system raise test scores?' and 'Is it efficient?' we'd be better off asking questions that correspond to Nebraska's 10 principles of sound accountability." "Does this system regard teachers as leaders? Does this system focus on capacity rather than controls? Does this system foster commitment and not mere compliance? Does this system promote integration of accountability and school improvement? Does this system risk complexity rather than demand simplicity? Does this system really include all students? Does this system engage all teachers? Does this system engage all other relevant stakeholders? Does this system keep pedagogy at its center? Does this system encourage high-impact, not high-stakes, assessment?" 1-04 Accountability - Toward Genuine Accountability (George Lucas Education Foundation - Wiggins) "An effective state assessment system thus focuses resources and policy on ensuring that local assessment becomes more sophisticated, rigorous, and self-correcting. That goal is best accomplished by putting more authority, not less, in local hands while also ensuring, however, that local assessors meet standards for assessment and intervention based on results, and where they have incentives to care about state standards and good local assessment." 1-02 Assessment, Evaluation and Standards (MiddleWeb) Provides an array of articles and resources to support excellence in assessment, evaluation and utilization of standards. Certification - Teacher Certification (Mining Co. - Walker) Provides information on teacher certification by state. Critical Thinking - Definition and Assessment (Foundation for Critical Thinking) Provides a framework for defining and assessing critical thinking. 3-00 Education Resource Organizations by State (US Dept of Education) 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. 1-02 Multiculturalism and School Standards (Rethinking Schools - Bigelow) Provides an argument against the content, and the apparent purpose of the content, in Oregon's new standards in Social Studies. 10-99 NWREL Evaluation and Assessment 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." 10-09  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 Objectives - Bloom's Taxonomy and Use of Technology (WestEd) Provides categories and verbs for Bloom and Krathwohl's taxonomy of educational objectives plus an added set fof objectives for use of recent technology. 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) Using Mental Measurement Materials in Counseling and Therapy (Buros Institute) 7-01 Vermont Performance Assessment (Vermont Department of Education) Provides assessment information by subject. 9-01 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 Arts Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom English/Language Arts Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Foreign Language Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Health Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Math Standards (Awesome Library) -Classroom Math Standards (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Math Standards - Elementary Level by Grade (Awesome Library) -Classroom Math Standards - Middle-High School Level by Subject (Awesome Library) -Classroom Math Standards for California (King's County - Shaver) Provides standards for lessons by grade and topic. SCORE Mathematics -Classroom Occupational Education Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Physical Education Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Science, Thinking, and Reasoning (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Science, Thinking, and Reasoning (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Social Studies Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. -Classroom Technology Standards by State (EdStandards.org) Provides standards by state. 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 Classroom Educational Standards by Subject and State (Wappingers Central School District - Hill) Provides standards by subject and state. 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 National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) Provides new national education performance standards. Science Standards (National Academy of Sciences) Includes examples. 4-02 Sites Offering Academic and Skill Standards Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students (Buros Institute) Discusses standards for assessing teacher competence. 1-02

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