Emerging from the Smog: Making Technology Assessment Work for Schools - Jamie McKenzie shares a sailing analogy about the necessity to assess technology with rationale and resources.

Finding Your Way Through The Data Smog: - Jamie McKenzie shares an article about free tools for assessing teachers and professional development. This is a good article for looking at teachers and where they should be heading.

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.

Profiler Technology Integration Progress Gauge - Word Document that allows a school site to evaluate technology integration.

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.

Bellingham Technology Assessment Resourcess - links to resources for students in the Bellingham school District.  Site includes performance and self assessments.

The Technology in My Life Survey  - a survey for  teachers to know how many people need which kinds of experiences to help them feel comfortable and proficient with  technology from Jamie McKenzie.

LCHS Technology Staff results - the technology survey results from a high school

Assessment of Student Technology Attitudes and Skills- an assessment form in PDF format for students.

District Technology Survey of Students - a survey for students about technology use.

District Building Assessments - a PDF file for assessing building use of technology.

Visalia Unified School District Technology Review - technology survey results presented to the community with ideas for questions they used to survey teachers and parents.

Technology Integration Survey - a survey used to evaluate the effectiveness of a technology  training program.

What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? - an article from Improving America's School: A Newsletter on Issues in School Reform - Spring 1996

Adopting, Adapting, or Developing an Aligned Assessment for Your Lesson - A step by step process for developing assessments for your standards lessons.

Star Chart Assessment Tools - an excellent list of tools to assess technology usage.

Instructional Design of  Learning Materials- A short overview article on assessment and the ADDIE Instructional design model.

SEIRTEC Chapter 7 on Evaluation From Planning Into Practice - an excellent overview about the evaluation process.

HPRTEC Technology Assessment and Impact - These resources cover a  variety of topics concerning the impact of
technology, the effectiveness of your school's technology plan,  and the relevance of certain technologies. An Excellent list of links!

HPRTEC Assessment Resources -  resources that cover a variety of assessment topics for evaluating your students.

"Did anybody learn anything?" Assessing Technology Programs and the Learning Accomplished - Jamie McKenzie report on the problems with asssessing technology provides detailed research.

Research Articles about Asssessment
What Does Research Say About Assessment? - A survey article that talks about the best assessment methods.

Technology: How Do We Know It Works? - an overview article about the needs to assess technology; it presents a brief set of ideas and guidelines for you to consider, ending with how technology itself can aid in the testing and evaluation process.

Technology and Teaching - PBS provides a wealth of links on best practices, digitial divide, technology support, staff development and more.

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.

The Educational Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology  Research Materials - whitepapers presented at the Conference.

Developing Assessments for Tomorrow’s Classrooms - a whitepaper presented at the Educational Secretary's Conference 2000 on Educational Technology.

Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion  A Report on Americans’ Access to Technology Tools - a report on the digital divide with data from the Office Of Educational Technology.

Review of the Professional Literature on the Integration of Technology  into Educational Programs - provides the highlights of the review  related to the state of technology availability in American schools, barriers to technology integration, characteristics of successful programs, and factors that affect teachers’ use of technology.

The Impact of Technology on Learning Making Sense of the Research - an article from McCrel on the differing opinions of the  effectiveness of technology in the student learning environment.

NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program Project Evaluation - an example of an evaluation format for the TLCF grant.

Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement - provides an overview, goals, action options, pitfalls, viewpoints, cases, contacts and references on using technology to improve student achievement.

Teachers, Assessment, And the Standards Movement - An article which illustrates how one teachers uses assessment in a variety of new ways.

Rubrics
Introduction to Authentic Assessment and Rubrics - Brief overview of authentic assessement and the use of rubrics with some excellent examples at the bottom of the web page.
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.
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.
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.

Portfolios
Electronic Portfolios: A New Idea in Assessment - An overview article on portfolios.
Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses - An overview article on portfolios.
An Introduction to Science Portfolios - A good overview of portfolios.
 

Tools for Assessing Schools
CEO Forum Star Chart
My Compass
NCREL's enGauge
SCRTEC Profiler
SEIRTEC Technology Program Evaluation

Other Tools
NoteStar - a web based note taking program