NCRTEC Learning with Technology Profile Tool - provides a tool to help compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology.
Alaska Department of Education Collection of Assessment Strategies - provides ideas and examples about a variety of different assessment techniques.
What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? - an article from Improving America's School: A Newsletter on Issues in School Reform - Spring 1996
Performance Assessment and Rubrics - provides an introduction to assessments and rubrics and provides examples.
ASCD Performance Assessment Tutorial - a tutorial on performance assessment.
PE Central Assessment Ideas - provides information about assessment and a variety of ideas for assessing in the PE environment.
Online Resources for Assessment - provides information and ideas about assessment.
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.
HPRTEC Assessment Resources - resources that cover a variety of assessment topics for evaluating your students.
Teachers, Assessment, And the Standards Movement - An article that illustrates how one teachers uses assessment in a variety of new ways.
What's Wrong--and What's Right--with Rubrics - an article about the potential flaws that can make rubrics worthless and what to do to make them powerful tools for measuring instructional quality.
Rubrics
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.
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 - provides links to different rubrics and rubric information.
The Rubric Bank - This site has lots of example rubrics from Chicago Schools.
Kid Friendly Rubrics - several rubrics written in language that students understand.
How to Create a Rubric from Scratch - A list of steps to develop rubrics.
Designing a Rubric - an article about things to consider when designing a rubric.
Rubrics - What, When - This site discusses what rubrics are and when to use them.
Creating Your Own Rubrics - a site that provides questions to get you to think about designing rubrics.
Rubrics Generators - provides a variety of different rubrics that can be printed for free, or if you join you can save and modify them.
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.
HPR*TEC
Handout - provides the directions for using RubiStar, PBL Checklists,
Casa Notes, and Web Worksheet Wizard.