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Indicators of Engaged Learning - a tool from NCRTEC for teachers to assess the amount of engaged learning in their classroom. It provides a graph for each teacher.

Articles

Authentic Assessment Overview
ASCD Performance Assessment Tutorial -- Scroll down and click on Performance Assessment.
Introduction to Authentic Assessment and Rubrics -- Brief overview of topics with some excellent examples at the bottom of the web page.
Creating Rubrics - Inspire your students and foster critical thinking -- A 5 step article to help you understand and develop rubrics.
What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? - an article from Improving America's School: A Newsletter on Issues in School Reform - Spring 1996
Specific Student Assessment Techniques -- Brief overview of a variety of assessment techniques.
Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments. ERIC Digest E531
Kathy Schrock’s Assessment and Rubric Information
Alaska Department of Education 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.
Performance Assessment and Rubrics -- An overview of performance assessment and rubrics plus specific ideas to keep in mind when creating rubrics.

Tools to use when Creating Performance Assessments

How to Create a Rubric from Scratch -- A list of steps to develop rubrics.
Rubric Builder -- Online tool to create rubrics to post to web pages.
The Staff Room -- A multitude of rubrics for a variety of content areas and grade levels.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubrics -- Links to different rubrics and rubric information.
Rubistar- offers templates for creating both descriptive and numerical rubrics in all content areas.
Project Based Learning Checklists  -This site has good examples of checklists for peer and self-evaluations.  It also contains sample rubrics.
Rubrics - What, When  - This site discusses what rubrics are and when to use them.
The Rubric Bank - This site has lots of example rubrics from Chicago Schools.
Adopting, Adapting, or Developing an Aligned Assessment for Your Lesson -- A step by step process for developing assessments for your standards lessons.

Other Articles
Teachers, Assessment, And the Standards Movement -- An article which illustrates how one teachers uses assessment in a variety of new ways.
Alternative Assessment -- An overview of alternative assessment and links to more resources.
What Does Research Say About Assessment? -- A survey article that talks about the best assessment methods.
Assessing Information Problem-Solving Skills - Jamie McKenzie shares a  research agenda for classroom teachers and library media specialists working in partnership to engage students in serious investigation and inquiry.  It includes a link to the Information Skills Rating Scale.
HPRTEC Assessment Resources -  resources that cover a variety of assessment topics for evaluating your students.
Observing Classroom Processes in Project-Based Learning Using Multimedia: A Tool for Evaluators - this paper discusses methods for observing changes in classroom processes in project-based classrooms using multimedia technology. The tool was used as part of a five-year evaluation of a local Technology  Innovation Challenge Grant program called Challenge 2000: Multimedia Project. In the paper, we discuss the design of the observation tool and present findings about the differences in classroom processes between Multimedia Project classrooms and comparison classrooms. Project classrooms, we found, are more likely to be learner-centered and engage students in long-term, complex assignments.
Developing Assessments for Tomorrow’s Classrooms - a whitepaper presented at the Educational Secretary's Conference 2000 on Educational Technology.
PE Central Assessment Ideas -- Assessment ideas for Physcial Education.
Online Resources for Assessment -- More links to assessment resources.
NWREL ToolKit98 -- In depth information on assessment.