Assessment

Edutopia: Assessment: At a Glance
Standardized tests aren't the only way of gauging student achievement. Throughout the country, educators are using performance assessments to measure what students know and can do.

Using Rubrics in Middle School - Understanding Rubrics by Heidi Goodrich Andrade - "When you learn what rubrics do--and why--you can create and use them to support and assess student learning without losing your sanity." (http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html)

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment - A collection of assessment and rubrics website. (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html)

Student Self-Assessment - Making Standards Come Alive - Five high school teachers implemented student self-assessment (SSA) in their schools. The article offers some solutions to the concerns of teachers using standards in the school system. (Classroom Leadership - Archived Issues - Volume 5 September 2001 - Making Standars Work)

Rubrics for Web Lessons by Nancy Pickett - An introduction to what is authentic assessment and examples of rubrics and how to construct one.
(http://webquest.sdsu.edu/rubrics/weblessons.htm)

Creating Your Own Rubrics - A basic worksheet containing questions to ask yourself when creating a rubric.
(http://www.2learn.ca/projects/together/START/rubricc.html)

Creating Rubrics Through Negotiable Contracting and Assessment - What would happen if students were invited to help decide how their work should be evaluated? Would they exploit the opportunity, designing standards so ridiculously low as to guarantee a glut of effortless good grades? (http://www.interactiveclassroom.com/articles_006.htm)

Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom - "Performance-based assessment provides teachers with information about how a child understands and applies knowledge. Also, teachers can integrate performance-based assessments into the instructional process to provide additional learning experiences for students." (http://www.ascd.org/ed_topics/cl200002_brualdi.html)

Critical Issue: Integrating Assessment and Instruction in Ways that Support Learning - Andrew Porter, director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Andrew Porter discusses that changes in the workplace are likely to accelerate as we enter the 21st century where content and assessment in the school systems must support what is taught.
(http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as500.htm)

Ideas and Rubrics - Chicago Public School System's detailed introduction to performance assessment, rubric development and evaluation of rubrics.
(http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/ideas_and_rubrics.html)