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• Assessment: Information Technologies in the K-12 Curriculum
  http://www.iste.org/content/navigationmenu/research/reports/the_road
  _ahead_background_papers_1997_/assessment_information_technologies
  _in_the_k-12_curriculum.htm
  The main focus of this booklet is student assessment in instructional settings where use of information technologies is woven into the everyday curriculum. Current research is presented and analyzed from an information-technologies point of view.
  
  
• Center for Assessment Resources and Studies
  http://www.jmu.edu/assessment/
  Information on assessment from James Madison University: The assessment process, basics of computer-based testing and assessment and characteristics of an effective assessment program.
  
  
• Creating Rubrics
  http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-and-management/rubrics/4521.html
  Rubrics can inspire your students and foster critical thinking. This five-part series explores how one teacher designs, refines, and implements rubrics in a variety of subject areas.
  
  
• DiscoverySchool - Assessment and Rubric Information
  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
  A variety of rubrics for various subject areas and learners are listed.
  
  
• Key Building Blocks
  http://www.ceoforum.org
  Key building blocks for student achievement in the 21st Century: Assessment, Alignment, Accountability, Access and Analysis by the CEO Forum.
  
  
• Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
  http://www.ericae.net/
  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.
  
  
• Technology briefs for No Child Left Behind
  http://www.neirtec.org/products/techbriefs/default.asp
  Technology briefs for No Child Left Behind planners by the Education Development Center, Inc.
  
  
• Technology Can Raise Achievement
  http://www.electronic-school.com/2001/09/
  0901ewire.html
  Technology Can Raise Achievement. The American School Board Journal by Sally Banks Zakarlya published in CEO Forum.
  
  
• Teaching in a Digital Age
  http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/sargent&
  armstrong.htm
  Teaching in a Digital Age: New Resources for Envisioning Change by Mark Sargent and Sara Armstrong.
  
  
• Test Prep Review
  http://www.testprepreview.com/computer_advantages.htm
  Your Source for Free Practice Tests!
  

Research Studies

• What Works Clearinghouse
  http://www.w-w-c.org/standards.html
  The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established to help improve the education of American students by: producing high quality summaries of research on the effects of educational interventions and approaches on student outcomes, promoting the use of rigorous scientific methods in studies of educational effectiveness, promoting the use of rigorous research in education decision-making, and facilitating public and educator access to research-related resources.
  

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Tools

• CASTLE Toolkit
  http://www.le.ac.uk/castle/
  The CASTLE toolkit is an on-line authoring tool that allows course tutors and managers to quickly create interactive quizzes for use on the web
  
  
• Easy Test Maker
  http://www.easytestmaker.com/
  Easy Test Maker is a FREE online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. You can also print a master answer sheet. Just click the "Print Answer Sheet" link when you are done creating your test. It's that easy!
  
  
• Hot Potatoes
  http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/
  The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Web site.
  
  
• Rubistar
  http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
  RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
  
  
  
  



 

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December 5, 2007

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