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E School News: Doing More With Less: How Informed Assessment Practices Can [Pdf]
An in-depth guide for educators about Informed Assessment Practices. These types of practices can efficiently shed light on student learning; without them, educators cannot determine the most appropriate next steps to strengthen...
University of Oregon
Computer Based Assessment: Taxonomy Table
This website introduces a taxonomy or categorization of 28 innovative item types useful in computer-based assessment. The taxonomy describes "intermediate constraint" items. These item types have responses that fall somewhere between...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Rubric for Rubrics
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric describes a well-written rubric, and how a rubric is created and used with students. It is clear, concise, and useful for helping educators avoid some common pitfalls. It can be used during...
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric (Non Ccss)
[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Creativity & Innovation Rubric (Ccss Aligned)
[Free Registration/Login Required] The first part of this rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 6-12 in using an effective process for innovation in various phases of a project, and it can be used to assess their performance....
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Essay tagger.com: Common Core Rubric Creation Tool
The Common Core State Standards are broken down into manageable, assessable elements in order to make it easier to create real-world Common Core-aligned rubrics that will work in the classroom. Teachers can pick which elements they want...
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Problem Attic
[Free Registration/Login Required] A data bank of 90,000 questions in Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts. The questions are taken from NY Regents Exams, state assessments, competitions, and other sources. They are organized...
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Kathy Schrock: Assessment and Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock has gathered over forty rubric possibilities for assessing student work in all subject areas and grade levels. Some pages allow a teacher to create a custom rubric, as well.
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West Virginia Dept. Of Education: Teach 21: Examples of Formative Assessment
When incorporated into classroom practice, the formative assessment process provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening. The process serves as practice for the student and a check for...
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Manitoba Education: Rethinking Classroom Assessment With Purpose in Mind [Pdf]
As implied in the title, Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind, identifying the purpose of any assessment is critical for its effective use. This document identifies three purposes of classroom assessment: assessment for...
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North Dakota Department Fo Public Instruction: Content Standards
The state displays its learning standards for the areas of dance, drama, music, visual, English/language arts, health, math,physical education, sciences, and social studies.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Pathways to School Improvement
Use this NCREL site to find research and best practices relating to many critical issues in education. Each area on the site includes discussions of critical issues, supporting material, and additional resources. Areas include...
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Esl basics.com
Homepage with links to a US citizenship series that includes quizzes and videos to prepare English language learners for the naturalization test. Links are also available to videos aimed at explaining English words.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:secrets of the Sat
Research the history of the SAT and the claims on what it actually measures, and determine the utility of the SAT in evaluating a student's capabilities and college potential. Investigate stereotypes in the test's questions and scoring.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Reading Tests
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reading comprehension practice passages. An answer key is provided for these passages. A passage has questions that focus on different types of reading comprehension questions.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work:case for Classroom Assessment
A review of the effects of different forms of formative assessment on student improvement and overall achievement.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: The Best Value in Formative Assessment
Ready-made benchmark tests cannot substitute for day-to-day formative assessment conducted by assessment-literate teachers. This article helps educators find out what assessment for learning is and how it leads to student improvement.
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Fde: Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test Results
This site provides data for state, district and individual school scores for each of the content areas of the Florida proficiency tests.
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Nwea: The Five Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Dylan Wiliam provides the five strategies that he has come to believe are core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Assessment of English Language Learners
This resource includes a 45-minute webcast with George Mason University education professor Dr. Lorraine Valdez Pierce, discussion questions, sample assessment tools, and other resources. Sample assessment tools are available as...
Kansas State
Kansas State Department of Education: Career Standards and Assessments
The standards and assessments for the state of Kansas are detailed here for all disciplines. Sample test items are included for some areas.
Teacher Planet
Teacher Planet: Rubrics for Teachers
A large collection of links to rubrics, and tools for making rubrics and understanding how to design and use them.
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R Campus: Rubric Studio & Rubric Gallery
This is a great free rubrics site. The Rubric Studio is a comprehensive rubric design and assessment tool. Teachers can build simple rubrics or complex rubrics with multiple sections and flexible number of rows and columns. In addition,...
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Center for Assessment: Cognitive Rigor in Stds, Curriculum & Assessment [Pdf]
Participate in this exercise to determine where an assessment fits on the Hess' Cognitive Rigor Matrix.