Standards-based assessment

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory [ http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/ ]
has many online resources related to standards-based assessment. Toolkit98 is an entire site with examples designed to assist classroom teachers to become better assessors of student learning, There is a simple bibliography of assessment alternatives. A detailed copy of the booklet costs $8.95. There are also bibliographies of content-specific assessments: reading, math, social studies, oral communication, science, as well as references on grading policy, portfolios, and factors that affect achievement (the bibliographies do not have links to the documents and are supplied as Acrobat documents).

Assessment Strategies and Definitions [ http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/definiti.htm ]
On this page, you will find a simple list of different types of assessment.

Assessment: Creating Rubrics [ http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4521.html]
Explore this five-part series to learn how one teacher uses rubrics to motivate students and foster critical thinking. The articles focus on the advantages of rubrics, rubric design, weighting evaluation criteria and how to include students in the assessment process.

WWW4Teachers / RubiStar [ http://4teachers.org/]
has some great tools to help you quickly create rubrics and learning checklists. There are also a number of tutorials on assessment.

CyberLibrary [ http://www.rainbowtech.org/CyberLib/assess.htm ]
has a fairly comprehensive list of links to other websites related to rubrics and assessment.

last updated Sunday, August 19, 2007