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| Assessment and Evaluation | ||
| Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation | ||
| An on-line journal dedicated to providing education professionals access to articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice. ( http://pareonline.net/Home.htm ) | ||
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| Alternative Assessment and Technology, ERIC Digest | ||
| This digest focuses on going beyond multiple-choice testing, to develop better methods for assessing a student's acquisition of complex knowledge. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/technology.htm ) | ||
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| What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? | ||
| New forms of student assessment are designed to demonstrate what students are learning and what they can do with their knowledge. Known variously as "alternative" or "more authentic" measures, these assessments require students to "perform" in some way -- by writing, demonstrating, explaining, or constructing a project or experiment -- so they are also called "performance-based" tests. ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/pt3.html ) | ||
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| Student Assessment and Testing | ||
| This web site features an interesting position paper written by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Equity Center. ( http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/educate/11.html ) | ||
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| Alternative Assessment and Technology, ERIC Digest | ||
| This digest focuses on going beyond multiple choice testing, to develop better methods for assessing a student's acquisition of complex knowledge. ( http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed365312.html ) | ||
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| Research Studies on Assessment and Evaluation | ||
| Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation | ||
| An on-line journal dedicated to providing education professionals access to articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice. ( http://pareonline.net/Home.htm ) | ||
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| National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) | ||
| Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing. ( http://www.cse.ucla.edu/ ) | ||
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| Standardized Tests | ||
| On Standardized Testing | ||
| Gain more knowledge about the problems associated with standardized tests, especially those of the primary grades, by viewing this site. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-5/testing.htm ) | ||
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| FairTest: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing | ||
| Find out how standardized testing might harm education. ( http://www.fairtest.org/facts/howharm.htm ) | ||
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| State-by-State Testing Practices | ||
| On Standardized Testing | ||
| Gain more knowledge about the problems associated with standardized tests, especially those of the primary grades, by viewing this site. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-5/testing.htm ) | ||
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| Assessment Tools and Procedures | ||
| Project Zero | ||
| Web site for Harvard University's Project Zero. ( http://pzweb.Harvard.edu ) | ||
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| Scoring Rubrics | ||
| This site, part of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) includes helpful criteria for scoring. ( http://www.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/pages/Rubrics.htm ) | ||
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| What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? | ||
| New forms of student assessment are designed to demonstrate what students are learning and what they can do with their knowledge. Known variously as "alternative" or "more authentic" measures, these assessments require students to "perform" in some way -- by writing, demonstrating, explaining, or constructing a project or experiment -- so they are also called "performance-based" tests. ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/pt3.html ) | ||
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| Using Alternative Assessments to Improve Teaching and Learning | ||
| This ERIC Digest suggests that traditional assessment techniques must now be complimented by newer methods. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/history.htm ) | ||
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| Testing and Grading | ||
| Evaluating: Grading and Scoring | ||
| Links to diverse methods for grading and scoring. ( www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/ch11.html ) | ||
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| The Forum -- Holistic Scoring | ||
| This site considers the use of holistic scoring techniques to eliminate bias when evaluating essays. This technique looks at the student's work as complete units rather than as a collection of constituent elements. ( http://hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/labyforum/May93/May93F1.html ) | ||
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| Performance Assessment, Scoring Rubrics, and Portfolios | ||
| Project Zero | ||
| Web site for Harvard University's Project Zero. ( http://pzweb.Harvard.edu ) | ||
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| Scoring Rubrics | ||
| This site, part of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) includes helpful criteria for scoring. ( http://www.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/pages/Rubrics.htm ) | ||
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| What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? | ||
| New forms of student assessment are designed to demonstrate what students are learning and what they can do with their knowledge. Known variously as "alternative" or "more authentic" measures, these assessments require students to "perform" in some way -- by writing, demonstrating, explaining, or constructing a project or experiment -- so they are also called "performance-based" tests. ( http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/pt3.html ) | ||
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| Using Alternative Assessments to Improve Teaching and Learning | ||
| This ERIC Digest suggests that traditional assessment techniques must now be complimented by newer methods. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/history.htm ) | ||
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| Alternative Assessment and Technology, ERIC Digest | ||
| This digest focuses on going beyond multiple choice testing, to develop better methods for assessing a student's acquisition of complex knowledge. ( http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/technology.htm ) | ||
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| Alternative Assessments | ||
| Authentic Education | ||
| Ideas from Grant Wiggins and associates about authentic education and alternative assessment. ( http://www.grantwiggins.org/ ) | ||
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| Performance Assessment for Science Teachers | ||
| Tasks for authentic assessment, including rationales, teachers' notes and equipment lists. ( http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/Perform/PAST5.htm ) | ||
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