Assessment

Annenberg Institute for School Reform
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/accountability/index.html
Includes resources for learning about and collecting tools to help with alternative performance-based assessment.

APPLE (Assessing Projects and Portfolios for Learning)
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/APPLE.htm
A research and development effort focused on answering three key questions: 1) What are effective ways of assessing student performances and project work? 2) How can a child's work on a series of projects be documented and assessed fairly? 3) What is required to implement portfolio assessment in a school so that it will "take root" and serve as an ongoing tool for the evaluation of programs as well as children?

Assessing student work with project-based learning
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/AssessPBL.html
From the Multimedia Project: Project-based learning with Multimedia. Discussion of questions such as: What is the function of assessment in project-based learning (PBL)? How do teachers plan their assessments?

Education world: Creating rubrics, tools you can use http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr248.shtml
Rubrics provide teachers with an objective method for evaluating skills that don't lend themselves to objective assessment methods. Learn how rubrics can guide your students and support your assessments. Includes 3 online tools for creating rubrics.

How am I doing?
http://www.electronic-school.com/2000/01/0100f4.html
A technology self-assessment for teachers.

Involving students in the checklist creation
http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/students.shtml

Peer review evaluation rubric
http://www.gsn.org/cf/rubric/evalrubric.stm
From the Global Schoolhouse international schools cyberfair project.

Rubric for assessing the analytical thinking process of problem solving
http://www.iusd.k12.ca.us/ra/rsjdocs/analytic/psrubric.htm

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