Knowing what students are learning and what they need to know is critical information for shaping learning environments. When students don't learn, the community suffers. High stakes testing only makes clear the dimensions of the problem. Assessment that is ongoing and prescriptive can help make every student a valued member of society without the negative affects of ranking schools.
Alternative Assessment
This link provides a "list of ERIC definitions for concepts related to alternative assessment is from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation . These terms may be used as descriptors or identifiers when searching the ERIC database.
Assessing Digital Videos
Assessing student produced digital video requires the same amount of preparation and consideration as other more traditional assignments. You will find ideas for assessing student produced digital video in this area including links to sites that allow you to customize rubrics to fit a specific project.
Assessment in Kindergarten
Besides needing to report students' growth to family through progress reports, report cards, and conferences, assessments taken in Kindergarten are essential to gaining insight into how much students are growing and learning in your kindergarten program and to adjust the way you teach to better meet their needs. Kindergarten teachers tend to assess in a variety of ways.
Assessment in Music (Texas Framework)
The pages in this web site discuss internal assessment, developed within the school, and external assessment, developed outside the school but often required, and how they can be combined to help students and teachers better assess music learning.
Assessment of problem based learning
Because instruction and learning is different in problem based settings than traditional instruction, problem based learning provides a quandry for many instructors at student evaluation. This web page examines two separate factors: assessing students to determine their grade in a problem based learning curriculum; and depicting results from studies that have focused on assessing the value of problem based learning curricula.
Assessment Strategies with related websites
A concise list of assessment strategies useful to preservice students thinking through assessment possibilities. Includes a list of related web addresses.
Assessments and Accountability
Adapted for "Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation" online, with permission of Robert L. Linn and the American Educational Research Association, from Linn, R.
Authentic Assessment (Coalition of Essential Schools)
Authentic assessment asks students to apply their knowledge and skills in the same way they would be used in the "real world". The assessment is performance-based and requires each student to exhibit their in-depth knowledge and understanding through a demonstration of mastery.
Defining and Assessing Learning: Exploring Competency-Based Initiatives
This is a report of the Postsecondary Education Cooperative Working Group on Comptency-Based Initiatives in Postsecondary Education. This document examines the use of competency-based initiatives across postsecondary education
in the United States and presents principles that underlie successful implementation drawn from
selected case studies.
Design Patterns for Assessing Science Inquiry
Designing systems for assessing inquiry in science requires expertise across domains
that rarely resides in a single individual: science content and learning, assessment design,
task authoring, psychometrics, delivery technologies, and systems engineering. The goal of
the Principled Assessment Designs for Inquiry (PADI) project is to provide a conceptual
framework for designing inquiry tasks that coordinates such efforts and provides supporting
tools to facilitate them.
E-Portfolio Decisions and Dilemmas
The definition of e-portfolio covers a wide spectrum of approaches to documentation and assessment, with a correspondingly wide array of differing audiences and purposes. In addition, the unique role of technology in the mediation of action and learning adds to the dilemmas inherent in the decisions that need to be made when designing and implementing e-portfolio systems.
Enhancing the Design and Delivery of Assessment Systems: A Four Process Architecture.
Persistent elements and relationships underlie the design and delivery of educational assessments, despite their widely varying purposes, contexts, and data types. A four-process architecture is presented for the delivery of assessments: Activity Selection, Presentation, Response Processing, and Summary Scoring.
Feasibility of Measuring Problem-Solving Using a Click-Through Interface.
In this study we investigated the feasibility of a novel user interface to support the measurement of problem-solving processes. Our research questions addressed the use of a “click-through” interface to measure the “generate-and-test” problem-solving process for a design problem.
How to Respond When Students Give the Wrong Answer
Incorrect answers can often provide clues to what students don't understand. The suggestions provided here can help teachers better understand where their students are having difficulty.
Introduction to Electronic Portfolios
This presentation, which has been given in several national and international conferences, is one starting point for discussion about electronic portfolios such as the eFolio, by David Gibson.
Leverage Points for Improving Educational Assessment (Mislevy et.al)
Advances in cognitive psychology deepen our understanding of how students gain and use knowledge. Advances in technology make it possible to capture more complex performances in assessment settings, by including, for example, simulation, interactivity, collaboration, and constructed response.
Madison District Assessment Policy
The purpose of this web site is to provide stakeholders involved with educational assessment within the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) a consistent foundation upon which to base their assessment practice. The site has a section on philosophy and another section on standards for practice.
NeoTest
This application from DaulSoft of Korea is a large-scale testing application.
Network-based Assessment
This powerpoint outlines a vision and framework elements for assessment facilitated by technology.
New Directions in e-Learning: Personalization, Simulation and Program Assessment
This paper discusses three areas of recent innovative work: personalization and e-portfolios, simulation-based assessments, and research-based criteria for e-learning. A new web-based personal application illustrates the strengths of both generic tools and customized systems in e-portfolios.
On the Structure of Educational Assessments
In educational assessment, we observe what students say, do, or make in a few particular circumstances, and attempt to infer what they know, can do, or have accomplished more generally. This paper describes a framework for assessment that makes explicit the interrelationships among substantive arguments, assessment designs, and operational processes.
Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
Manuscripts published in Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about issues and practices in education. They are designed to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends and research developments.
Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students. ERIC Digest.
"Many educators have come to recognize that alternative assessments are an important means of gaining a dynamic picture of students' academic and linguistic development. "Alternative assessment refers to procedures and techniques which can be used within the context of instruction and can be easily incorporated into the daily activities of the school or classroom" (Hamayan, 1995, p.
Simulations and the Conceptual Assessment Framework in simSchool
Abstract. SimSchool is a teacher education computer simulation of a grade 7 – 12 classroom being developed with funding from the Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3, 2003) program.
The Personal Learning Planner: Collaboration through Online Learning and Publication
This paper discusses the online Personal Learning Planner (PLP) project underway at the National Institute of Community Innovations (NICI), one of the partners in the Teacher Education Network (TEN), a 2000 PT3 Catalyst grantee. The Web-based PLP provides a standards-linked portfolio space for both works in progress and demonstration collections of completed work, combined with structures to support mentorship and advising centered around the improvement of work.
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