- Assessment
This North Central Regional Educational Laboratory site provides links to their critical issues articles and other NCREL essays plus links to outside sites that also address assessment.
- What Does Research Say About Assessment? by R.J. Dietel, J.L. Herman, and R.A. Knuth
This North Central Regional Educational Laboratory article summarizes research on assessment. It's an easy way to get the background on some of the current trends, and it includes a list of activities for teachers, along with a checklist for excellence in assessment.
- Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Assessment Toolkit98: Integrating Assessment with Instruction
This Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory site provides professional development materials on assessment techniques. It includes four chapters, each with activities and readings, to help teachers plan and implement effective assessment programs.
- Critical Issue: Integrating Assessment and Instruction in Ways That Support Learning
A multimedia "critical issue" feature prepared by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Interviews, case studies, and more help make the case for coordinating teaching and assessment in ways that support learning.
- What Happens Between Assessments? by Jay McTighe
This Educational Leadership article presents seven principles for "performance-based instruction."
- A Developmental Approach to Assessment of Young Children by Lilian G. Katz
This 1997 article by Lilian G. Katz looks at the developmental appropriateness of assessing young children.
- Assessment and Testing: Measuring Up to Expectations by Christine Cress
This 1996 article by Christine Cress examines issues of assessment in the community college environment.
- Assessment & Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock, whose Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators includes a vast array of resources for teachers, offers this list of models for designing rubrics to grade student technology projects. This site also includes several good links to general information about rubrics.
- Evaluating: Grading and Scoring
An online tutorial on grading and scoring, including such topics as letter grades, writing notes, weighting scores, informal assessments, and more.
- Grading Students by Lawrence H. Cross
This short article from the ERIC Digests offers some basic how-tos about grading students and a list of helpful references.
- Critical Issue: Reporting Assessment Results
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory presents a multimedia "critical issue" feature about the importance of communication. It includes interviews, case examples, and more.
- Teacher Comments on Report Cards by Amy Brualdi
This short article from the electronic journal, Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation offers extremely practical advice about preparing your comments for student report cards, including the elements of a good comment and some wording to avoid.
- Educational Testing Service (ETS)
ETS administers many standardized scholastic aptitude tests, including the famous Scholastic Assessment Test, or SAT, and the PRAXIS teacher examinations. Click for practice questions and see how well you fare on some of the ETS tests.
- National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on K-12 educational testing. Its website offers reports and a teachers' page.
- Norm- and Criterion-Referenced Testing by Linda A. Bond
This 1996 article by Linda A. Bond describes the differences between norm-references tests and criterion referenced tests and explains the most appropriate uses of each.
- The Case for Authentic Assessment by Grant Wiggins
This 1990 article by Grant Wiggins examines what authentic assessment is and why it is important.
- Authentic Mathematics Assessment by Tej Pandey
This 1990 article by Tej Pandey looks at authentic mathematics assessment for evaluating practical math skills.
- Constructing Classroom Achievement Tests by Ruth Axman Childs
This 1989 article by Ruth Axman Childs is from the ERIC Digests. It describes the steps of test construction and interpretation.
- Writing Multiple-Choice Test Items by Jerard Kehoe
This article, from the ERIC Digests, is just one of many guides to writing good multiple-choice items.
- Basic Item Analysis for Multiple-Choice Tests by Jerard Kehoe
This article by Jerard Kehoe looks at the possibilities of improving multiple-choice tests by using "item analysis" statistics. This statistical analysis can differentiate between good and bad test questions. On future tests good questions can then be reused while bad ones are discarded.
- More Multiple-Choice Item Writing Do's and Don'ts by Robert B. Frary
This article by Robert B. Frary offers recommendations for writing multiple choice items.
- Student Portfolios: Classroom Uses by David Sweet
This Consumer Guide report from the Department of Education's Office of Research profiles several examples of portfolio use and answers questions such as "how do I get started?" and "what are the drawbacks?"
- Portfolios for Assessment and Instruction by Judith A. Arter and Others
This 1995 article by Judith A. Arter and others looks at the purposes of portfolios.
- Guidelines for the Development and Management of Performance Assessments by Edward D. Roeber
A straightforward, step-by-step article from the electronic journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation that gives recommendations for before, during, and after performance assessments.
- Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
PALS is an online, standards-based, resource bank of science performance assessment tasks. Tasks can be searched by standard or by grade range.
- Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments by Stephen N. Elliott
This 1995 article by Stephen N. Elliott addresses the issue of using performance assessments as a form of assessment.
- When Bright Kids Get Bad Grades by Adria Steinberg
This article from the Harvard Education Letter discusses the effects of falling grades on students' self-concept.
- Failure Syndrome Student by Jere Brophy
This article, from the ERIC Digests, suggests ways teachers can help students who may have developed a "learned helplessness" approach to schoolwork.
- Making the A: How to Study for Tests by Diane Loulou
This 1995 article by Diane Loulou offers tips for preparing for and taking tests.
- Success for All: The Median is the Key by Russell G. Wright
This article, from Phi Delta Kappan, argues that we need a better way to average students' grades.
- Critical Issue: Beyond Social Promotion and Retention-Five Strategies to Help Students Succeed
This site from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory responds to the issues of social promotion and grade retention. There are a lot of good links to related sites.
- NCREL: Pathways to School Improvement
The Web site presents a "critical issue" feature prepared by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Interviews, case studies, and more help make the case for coordinating teaching and assessment in ways that support learning. Read the materials on this Web site and identify five key ideas that might be helpful to you as a classroom teacher.
- Intelligent Essay AssessorTM
The Intelligent Essay Assessor is a software product that can grade and analyze electronic essays. There is a demonstration on the Web site.
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