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3.2 Multiple Assessments Multiple and varied assessments and evaluation strategies are used appropriately and effectively. 
Suggested Evidence
Related Resources Tools NEW! Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention [K-12] This kit, developed by the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, is a tool to help educators navigate changes related to specific learning disability determination and responsiveness to intervention. Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: National Research Center on Learning Disabilities Authentic Assessment Toolbox This webpage provides information on authentic assessments, as well as provides examples of what they look like. Author: Jon Mueller Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: North Central College Hot Potatoes Activities and Quiz Maker 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 those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, 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 Website. Publisher: Half-Baked Software Inc. Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom This article outlines basic steps for planning and implementing effective performance-based assessments in the classroom. The article addresses topics such as defining the purpose and criteria of the assessment, choosing the activity, creating performance rubrics, and providing feedback to students. Author: Amy Brualdi Publication Date: 1998 Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Developers This guide is intended primarily for educators providing professional development on how to conduct teacher assessment. The toolkit presents rationales for various aspects of the assessment process and provides training activities for each section. Sample district assessment tools are also included. Publisher: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Questions to Ask When Evaluating Tests This article presents standards to consider when evaluating tests. Issues addressed include test use, validity (criterion, content, and construct), norming, reliability, bias, administration, and reporting. Author: Lawrence Rudner Publication Date: 1994 Articles NEW! Screening for Mathematics Difficulties in K-3 Students [K-3] This report looks at the key features needed to screen kindergarten through third grade students for difficulties in mathematics. Author: Benjamin S. Clarke, Russell Gersten, Nancy C. Jordan Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction NEW! Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools, commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, discusses eleven specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help improve the writing abilities of the country’s 4th- to 12th-grade students. Author: Steve Graham and Dolores Perin Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education NEW! Extensive Reading Interventions in Grades K-3: From Research to Practice This report summarizes available data on the effects of extensive reading interventions (comprising at least 100 instructional sessions) and related implications for practice. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Jeanne Wanzek and Joseph K. Torgesen Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction NEW! Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice This report focuses on interventions designed to improve students' use of reading comprehension strategies. It also considers the impact of interventions that target improved reading vocabulary, accurate decoding of unfamiliar words in text, and increased reading fluency. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Greg Roberts, Sharon Vaughn, Meaghan Edmonds, Jade Wexler Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Assessing Student Progress with a Rubric In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of using rubrics in the classroom, and how these rubrics can be used as formative assessment instruments. Author: Harry and Rosemary Wong Publication Date: 2006, October Publisher: Teacher.Net Gazette Contexts for Engagement and Motivation in Reading This article discusses engaged reading and instructional contexts that foster reading engagement and motivation. Author: John T. Guthrie Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Reading Online First Things First: Demystifying Data Analysis This article discusses how to use data to focus on a few simple, specific goals to improve student achievement results. Author: Mike Schmoker Publication Date: 2003, February Publisher: Educational Leadership How Classroom Assessments Improve Learning (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) "The assessments best suited to guide improvements in student learning are the quizzes, tests, writing assignments, and other assessments that teachers administer on a regular basis in their classrooms," says Guskey. "To use classroom assessments to make improvements...[teachers] need to see their assessments as an integral part of the instruction process and as crucial for helping students learn." Author: Guskey, T.R. Publication Date: 2003, February Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Making Assessment Work for Everyone: How To Build on Student Strengths (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) Author: Patricia Kusimo, et al. Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: WestEd Teachers Examining Student Work to Guide Curriculum, Instruction This article describes how teachers in schools across the country are analyzing student work to determine how abstract concepts in the standards are translated and then using that information to develop strategies to address gaps. Note: Edweek requires a free registration to read the article. Author: David Hoff Publication Date: 2000, November The Concept of Formative Assessment The author discusses the importance of the "many opportunities" to assess how students are learning and then use this information to make beneficial changes in instruction during the course of a year. Resources for teachers interested in formative assessment are included. Author: Carol Boston Publication Date: 2002 Useful Links Federal Resources for Educational Excellence This site, created in 1997 by over 30 agencies, lists hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources in an easy to find format. Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Testing Plus: Real Accountability with Real Results, National Education Association This website provides Testing Plus, a program of accountability measures that includes (1) more thorough measures, (2) improved tests and assessments, (3) comprehensive reporting to parents, (4) alternatives to a test as the sole means of accountability, (5) targeted professional development, and (6) focused investments. Other Resources Arizona Department of Education's Assessment Section This link leads to the Assessment Section of the Arizona Department of Education. The Assessment Section provides for the development of Arizona academic content standards that describe what students need to know and be able to do, articulated by grade level. S&A also provides for the procurement and administration of a nationally standardized, norm-referenced achievement test and the development and administration of standards-based test (AIMS) to measure student achievement of the Arizona academic content standards. ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved.  |
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