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Formative and Summative Assessments
http://ow.ly/SQSn
Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom
Effective Classroom Assessment: Linking Assessment with Instruction

Assessments for the 21st Century (Intel)
http://tinyurl.com/ozpud
Assessments for the 21st Century(Intel)
Online Resource Helps Teachers Measure Student Performance in Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Intel's Assessing Projects resource
To develop the resource, Anne Batey, Intel Innovation in Education K-12 Curriculum Manager responsible for the resource content, gathered a group of education specialists from around the globe to conduct multi country pilots of an Assessing Projects prototype.

The School Information Partnership (USA)
http://www.schoolresults.org/
The School Information Partnership (USA)
The School Information Partnership is a public-private collaboration designed to empower parents, educators and policymakers to use the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) data to make informed decisions and improve school results. Standard & Poor's created the website which includes a suite of interactive analytical tools from Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Services and the National Center for Educational Accountability's Just for the Kids. For schools, districts and states across the nation, the website will display available data required to be publicly reported under NCLB.

Student Test Reviews Online (USA)
http://buros.unl.edu/
Student Test Reviews Online - test reviews when you need them
Access test information online exactly as it appears in the Mental Measurement Yearbook series
Search by alphabetic or category listings of test titles or by keyword ... free information on almost 4,000 commercially available tests.

Online Course on Assessment ... suitable for INSET
http://glef.org/Assessment/index.html
Online Course on Assessment ... suitable for INSET
The assessment module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts
Part One, Guided Process, is designed to give participants a brief introduction to assessment. It answers the questions "Why is Assessment Important?"; "What are Some Types of Assessment?"; and "How Do Rubrics Help?" The Guided Process includes the Assessment Resources section and a PowerPoint?presentation, including presenter notes.
Part Two, Group Participation, assigns readings and activities for experiential, project-based learning. Ideally, the tasks will be accomplished using group collaboration and with the use of technology.

Testing Our Schools USA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/
Testing Our Schools USA
What are the uses and misuses of tests?
Do higher test scores mean better schools?
How does the intense pressure to raise test scores affect the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom?
These are some of the questions FRONTLINE set out to explore in interviews with educators, policymakers, and educational testing experts across the country. What we found is that although standards-based reform has widespread support, experts see a danger in our reliance on standardized tests as the primary measure of school quality. Without the right kinds of tests, they say, and without an understanding of their proper uses, we may do more harm than good to public education in America.

Assessment Resources at Edutopia
http://tinyurl.com/5p5r
Assessment Resources at Edutopia
Assessment - At a Glance Standardized tests aren't the only way of gauging student achievement. Throughout the country, educators are using performance assessments to measure what students know and can do.
Featured Interview The renowned assessment expert discusses performance assessments, standardized tests, and more. (video)
Why performance-based assessment is important and how it works. (video)
Professional Development Module - Learn the Whys, Whats, and Hows of creating evidence-based assessment.

Reports Comment Bank
http://www.rayslearning.com/comment.htm
Teachers Report Assistant Comment bank
These comments are intended to be used with version 5.0 and above of the Report Assistant - get a copy of this totally free report writing software: Teachers Report Assistant
The comment files are in two formats: Report Assistant (tra) files: Those links in shown in bold are in 'tra' format and can be downloaded and opened by the Report Assistant complete with grouped statements and headings.
Plain Text files (txt): The remaining non bold comments are in plain text format - the text will be loaded into your browser if you click on the comment - use your browser's 'back' button to return here. Either copy them to the clipboard and paste into one of the comment boxes (but don't forget to save them) or right click on the link and select 'Save Target as' - it can then be opened by the Report Assistant but in a single comment box without headings.
Reports | comment bank | comments | many subjects |

Teachers Report Assistant (free)
http://www.rayslearning.com/report.htm
Teachers Report Assistant
Word process individual comments for students. Free time saving utility for teachers who word process student reports. Produces professional sounding, individualized report cards in the shortest possible time.
The program uses a set of statements written by the teacher or downloaded from the net which can then be tailored to suit individual students needs.
Select and combine comments with a single click - you won't believe how quickly complete reports can be written! Designed to work in conjuntion with your usual word processor.
"If you are writing reports and need a 'FREE' comment library that works in Windows. Easy to Use, No Messing, and quick to get the 'hang' of. Try: -Teacher Assist at Ray Le Couteur's page... I've used it - it's brilliant."

Report Card Comments ( Reports)
http://www.expage.com/4reportcards
Welcome to my collection of links for REPORT CARD COMMENTS.
I take NO CREDIT for creating these pages; I only COLLECTED & ARRANGED them for educators to use. I hope you find this site useful!
Reports | Comment Ideas for Report Cards | Word Banks | Comment Banks | Report Cards Tips | Grade Card Comments | Report Card and Progress Report Comments | Teacher Comments on Report Cards | How to Write Report Cards ~ Sample Comments | Report Card Comments from Elementary Educators in Canada | Report Card Comments for Elementary Art Teachers | Writing Report Card Comments ~ English | Report Card Comments ~ Language Arts | Report Card Comments ~ Religion & Family Life | Report Card Comments ~ Health & Physical Education | Report Card Comments ~ Mathematics | Report Card Comments ~ Science & Technology |

Assessment Ideas!
http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/ideas/subj_assessment.htm
Student Evaluation: An excellent tool to find out where our own strengths and weaknesses are in teaching. Encourages students to take responsibility for their learning as well
Students Writing the Test : Kids will love seeing their own questions on the next test!
Practice Writing Dialogue : By using comic strips, you'll have a fast and effective way of assessing dialogue!
Follow-up Letter to Parents After a Test : An example of a letter to parents after a test is sent home
"Left-overs...AGAIN!" : Put a twist to the old-fashioned "shoe-box" diorama with this fun assessment tool!

A Collection of Assessment Strategies
http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/mathsci/ms5_2as1.htm
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development
A Collection of Assessment Strategies
Each portion of this section describes and analyzes a particular type of assessment strategy, then lists sources of further information. Following those discussions, samples show how each type of strategy might be used at various grade levels.
The following assessment strategies are examples of classroom-based assessment. Most of the examples are embedded assessment (that is, the assessment is part of instruction and informs the teacher how to adjust instruction during the teaching process). They may also provide ongoing documentation of a student's ability relative to the Alaska Content Standards. These examples are not designed to be used as final assessment rubrics to quantify whether or not the students have achieved the Alaska Content Standards. Performance tasks addressing the content standards and related assessment rubrics for those tasks will be developed at a later date.

US School Reports ... see them all
http://www.heritage.org/reportcards/
A new online database developed by the Heritage Foundation allows parents and teachers to go to one Web site to find all the school report cards in the United States. To help schools create more useful accountability sites, the Foundation has identified 10 model report cards.
This map contains links to samples of Internet-based report cards in each of the 50 states (note that some states have no online report cards). Parents and other interested persons can click on the map to learn more about their children's schools, both public and private, and to compare and contrast different report cards. To the left of the map are links to various national report cards, profiling schools in multiple states.

Assessment
http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/aindex.htm?
Adopting, Adapting, or Developing an Aligned Assessment for Your Lesson
While your ultimate goal will be to help all students master the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and demonstrate student mastery through high scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), you do not want to wait until the end-of-year test to know whether your students learned the knowledge and skills. Instead, you will want to develop, adapt, or adopt assessments that will tell you whether students have learned what you expect them to learn within any given lesson.

FunBrain Learning Network
http://www.funbrain.com/
Quiz Lab:
Give paperless quizzes to your class.
• Quiz Lab automatically grades the quizzes and emails the results to you.
• Access thousands of assessment quizzes written by teachers like you.
Assessment | AR&R |

'Educational Testing' on EduFind
http://www.edufind.com/subcat_menu.cfm?Category=Educational%20Testing
You can search within a sub-category or begin using results for 'Educational Testing'
EXAM / TESTS
There are 673 education web sites that match your search for 'Educational Testing'.... on EduFind

Family Education Network
http://www.teachervision.com/tv/curriculum/assess/index.html
It seems that everywhere you turn, people are talking about testing and assessing. You can find some real world applications for your classroom here.

Standards, Assessment & Accountability
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/saa/index.html
The Office of Elementary & Secondary Education's "Standards, Assessment & Accountability" website presents letters & guidance related to Title I assessment requirements.

Hot Potatoes suite
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

Media-X
http://www.media-x.com/

Tests and Testing / USA
http://teachervision.com/resources/list/0,2608,17,00.html
Education Reform is sweeping across the United States. We have gathered articles and resources for you to get the latest on the movement and things you can do to improve your students' achievement.

NCFOT
http://www.fairtest.org
National Center for Fair & Open Testing

CCSSO
http://www.ccsso.org/
Council of Chief State School Officers ... has a section called "Standards and Assessments"

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluati
http://ericae.net/
The Web site features assessment FAQs, definitions, and links to sources of data, including demographics, subject areas, and educational levels. Read test descriptions and follow links to commercial sources for online testing, as well as organizations working for fairness and equity in testing practices.

National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)
http://www.nagb.org/
sets policy for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and development of the proposed Voluntary National Tests (VNT). Read all about those tests at http://www.nagb.org/ and then go to The Nation^Òs Report Card at http://nces.ed.gov/nation sreportcard/site/home.asp .

ClassBuilder
http://www.classbuilder.com/
ClassBuilder enhances the learning environment by improving communications, and providing more effective ways to access student learning. By providing more feedback to students and parents, ClassBuilder will facilitate the difficulties of grading. ClassBuilder is a complete toolkit that can be used off-line as well as on-line. For example, you can create exams that either can be handed out the old-fashioned way or given on-line. Best of all, ClassBuilder is free!

CLASS
http://www.classnj.org/
The Centre for Learning, Assessment and School Structure

Pathways to School Improvement
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/as0cont.htm
Critical issues with assessment / Trip Planner / Alternative Assessments / Educational Reform / Reporting / Assessing / What does Reasearch Say about Early Childhood Education / Assessment and Accountability /

OnLine Educational Magazine
http://www.fromnowon.org/fnoindex.html
This main menu has "Assessment" as the first option.... with several articles.... including "Assessing Technology"

Educational Testing Service Network
http://www.ets.org

NFER-NELSON
http://www.nfer-nelson.co.uk/
Lots of assessment material ... their is a search engine here to help you find items on the site.

National Curriculum Assessment Test
http://www.logo.com
Computer Software... published by Longman

National Records of Achievement
http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/nra.htm
Info from the DfEE (UK)

QuestionMark
http://www.qmark.com/
"The world's leading software for quizzes, tests and surveys"

CHEW
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Hazemi/chew.html
Collaboration in Higher Education using the Web

NetQuest
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/mru/netquest/tml
"Tutorial Markup Language" to creat searchable questionbanks for online delivery of tutorials and assessment.