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Assessment
A Trip Planner Inventory for Assessment
This site provides tools to help educators analyze the assessment practices in schools and classrooms. There are links to information about critical issues in assessment— for example, the role of assessment in supporting educational reform, reporting assessment results, and assessing young children's progress appropriately.
http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/areas/as0cont.htm
Evaluating: Grading and Scoring
By visiting this site, teachers can find practical information in using informal and formal assessments for evaluation. Discussion topics include letter grades, writing anecdotal notes, and involving students in the evaluation process.
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/ch11.html
Authentic Assessment
An Alternative to Testing: Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Appropriate for grades 3 to 5, this lesson plan enables students to demonstrate their vocabulary learning through a performance.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=47
Standard Norm-Referenced Tests
Making the Grade: What Every Parent Needs to Know about Changes in Assessments and Testing
Parents can visit this site to find a starting point in understanding the realm of assessment. This site, created by the Parent-Teacher Association, suggests to parents pertinent issues which merit discussion with the classroom teacher.
http://www.pta.org/programs/makegrade.htm
Help Your Child Improve in Test Taking
This is a publication of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It is a useful source of information for parents about standardized tests, test-taking anxiety, and other relevant issues.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/TestTaking/index.html
Assessing Linguistically Diverse Students
Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students
This ERIC document has practical advice on assessing students for whom English is a second language. The article explains the use of portfolios, KWL charts, and oral performances as assessment techniques.
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed395500.html
The ESL Standards for Pre-K–12 Students
This site provides educators with goals and standards for linguistically diverse students learning English. The standards have been created by TESOL.
http://www.tesol.edu/assoc/k12standards/it/01.html
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