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Alternative Assessment - A Rationale (ESP - Thomas)
Provides a rationale for alternative assessment and some suggestions for approaching it.
Assessing Hands-On Science (ESP)
Assessment in Mathematics (SMARD - Australia)
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

Materials

Aligning Standards Across the Curriculum
Educational Testing Service
Online Quiz Maker for Math (WebMath.com)
Creates a math quiz that students can take online. Grades the quizzes and provides the correct answers. Teachers can have results of student work sent to them if they wish. 4-00
Quizes 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.

Papers

Academic Progress by State (National Education Goals Panel)
Provides state by state comparisons of student academic achievement in 1988. 7-99
Assessment Requirements Under Title I (US Office of Education)
Assessment, Evaluation and Standards (MiddleWeb)
Provides an array of articles and resources to support excellence in assessment, evaluation and utilization of standards.

Building a Performance Based Unit of Study
Certification - Teacher Certification (Mining Co. - Walker)
Provides information on teacher certification by state.
Creating Better Student Assessment (US Office of Education)
Critical Thinking - Definition and Assessment (Foundation for Critical Thinking)
Provides a framework for defining and assessing critical thinking. 3-00
Critique of California's Assessment of Critical Thinking (Foundation for Critical Thinking)
Whether you agree or disagree with the position of this article, it is important reading for teachers and administrators. It uses an example of Hitler's writing to discuss and criticize criteria used in the assessment of persuasive communication. 3-00
Developing Standards (Baker)
Education Resource Organizations by State (US Dept of Education)
Educational Achievement by Subject (NCES)
Evaluating Web Sites (Schrock)
Provides over two dozen annotated sources of information to help evaluate Web sites. 10-99
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) 3-00
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
Provides a guide to assessment of oral communication. In PDF format. 7-99
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. 7-99
Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Voluntary National Tests (US Dept of Education)
What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning (US Office 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 misspelled as plaigerism, plaigarism, or plagerism. 4-00

Standards

-Classroom Arts Standards by State (Putnam)
-Classroom Educational Standards by Subject and State (Putnam)
-Classroom English/Language Arts Standards by State (Putnam) 9-99
-Classroom Foreign Language Standards by State (Putnam) 9-99
-Classroom Health Standards by State (Putnam) 9-99
-Classroom Math Standards (Awesome Library)
-Classroom Math Standards (Putnam)
-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 (Putnam) 9-99
-Classroom Physical Education Standards by State (Putnam)
-Classroom Science Standards (Putnam)
-Classroom Social Studies Standards by State (Putnam)
-Classroom Technology Standards by State (Putnam) 9-99
-Classroom Thinking and Reasoning (Putnam)
Arts - National Assessment of Progress (NAEP)
Provides the Nation's Report Card, an assessment of educational progress in the United States. 7-99
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.
Developing Content Standards
Early Childhood Program Accreditation
Essays on Standards
Governors and Business Leaders on School Standards (US News)
National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)
Provides new national education performance standards.
Setting School Standards (US News)
Sites Offering Academic and Skill Standards
Skill Standards for Industry
Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students
Testing Contested (NCTE)
Provides papers debating whether standardized testing should be continued. 10-99