Ed Tech Grant
Global Communication Collaborative


Week 6 - November 26th


Assessment Background Information
Specific Student Assessment Techniques - provides ideas and examples about a variety of different assessment techniques.

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.



Handouts
GroupWise Email Handouts - click on GroupWise on the left hand side and then click on the specific handout you need.

HPR*TEC Handout - provides the directions for using RubiStar, PBL Checklists, Casa Notes, and Web Worksheet Wizard.



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