Glossary of Important Testing Terms
http://taesig.com/createxiii.html

Rethinking Assessment "Students and teachers assess all the time"
http://sabes.org/resources/adventures/vol9/9intro.htm

Academic Assessment-Literacy "The terms assessment, test, and evaluation are frequently used interchangeably. However, important differences exist among them."
http://www.ysd.wednet.edu/Assessment/assessment%20literacy.html

Examining Performance "Looking at issues of accountability, but through the lens of capturing performance without the use of traditional tests.
http://sabes.org/resources/adventures/vol14/14intro.htm

Fair Assessment Practices "Giving students equitable opportunities to demonstrate learning."
http://sabes.org/resources/adventures/vol14/14suskie.htm

American Association for Higher Education Assessment Forum, 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning"
http://www.aahe.org/assessment/principl.htm

Assessment and Accountability "Middle Web, Exploring Middle School Reform"
http://www.middleweb.com/ContntAssess.html

Illuminating Understanding: Performance Assessment in Mathematics "Caring how a person arrives at an answer."
http://sabes.org/resources/adventures/vol14/14donovan.htm

Alternative Forms of Formative and Summative Assessment "The nature of assessment is central to everything students 'do' - it governs how they study and learn."
http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/handbook/assessment

Assessment, Student Confidence, and School Success "An alternative vision in which assessments are used to build student confidence in the service of school improvement."
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k9911sti.htm

2000 International Assessment Conference "New Directions in Student Testing and Technology"
www.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/APEC/apeclewis2000.pdf

Connecting Performance Assessment to Instruction: A Comparison of Behavioral Assessment, Mastery Learning, Curriculum-Based Measurement, and Performance Assessment "The need to reconnect large-scale and classroom assessment to learning so that assessment affects learning positively, enhancing instruction.."
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed381984.html

Benchmarking and Alignment of Standards and Testing The success of standards-based education systems depends on how elements: strong standards, and assessments that measure what the standards expect."
http://www.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/Reports/TR566.pdf

The Use of Computers in the Assessment of Student Learning "Increased numbers of students in Higher Education and the corresponding increase n time spent by staff on assessment has encouraged interest into how technology can assist in this area."
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/implementing-it/using.pdf

The Value of Computerized Adaptive Testing "The computerized technology of COMPASS^®/ESL adds a new dimension to placement testing and offers a number of benefits for students and schools".
http://www.act.org/compass/overview/adaptive.html

Computer Adaptive Testing as a Means for Mathematics Testing "Using IT may also bring in other advantages such as a continuous and dynamic approach to testing."
http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~fllee/mathfor/edumath/9812/05leungck.html

A Look at Tools for Assessment and Accountability "Using computers to conduct assessments and manage the data has so many advantages in terms of speed, effectiveness, and flexibility that the days of the No. 2 pencil are certainly numbered."
http://www.scholastic.com/administrator/spring02/features.asp?article=technology

Super Tech News "Assess where school districts are currently and exactly what they have to do to implement NCLB. Web-based assessment products for high-stakes tests"
http://www.blegroup.com/supertechnews/feb03.htm#new

Northwest Evaluation Association "Northwest Evaluation Association's computer adaptive test system, Measures of Academic Progress, provides timely data to monitor growth over time. NWEA assessments are uniquely suited to meet the No Child Left Behind Act and give teachers and schools meaningful data to help all students achieve".
http://www.nwea.org/

Lightspan "Lightspan eduTest Assessment is a comprehensive, online accountability and assessment solution that allows educators to adapt instruction by quickly identifying school, class, and student strengths and needs relating to state and national standards"
http://www.edutest.com/

Scantron "Scantron's products include scanners, forms, testing and assessment software, data collection and survey software, imaging solutions, hardware service and repair."
http://www.scantron.com/

Essential Resources "Providing opportunities for professional development to all educational leaders."
http://www.twblearn.com/Resources/catalog.htm

Assessment and Testing Directory "Information Technology Yellow Pages, Convenient and comprehensive listing of school software and information technology companies and consultants with detailed descriptions and hyperlinks to company Web sites. Book It Educational Directory."
http://www.it-yellowpages.com/ypscasmt.asp

Let's Talk About Testing "Educational Testing Service, ETS"
http://www.ets.org/testing/

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation "A peer-reviewed electronic journal"
http://ericae.net/pare/

Teacher Helper "Assessment and Rubric Information
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Full Text Internet Library "Assessment Library"
http://ericae.net/ftlib.htm

Raising the Bar: the Complexities of "Adequate Yearly Progress" Dubbed "AYP", the provisions establish a timeline under which schools must raise all students to the proficient level on state exams within 12 years.
http://www.fairtest.org/nattest/AYP0402.pdf

NCLB Resources

Education Week On the Web "American Education's Online Newspaper of Record"
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=59

No Child Left Behind "United States Department of Education"
http://www.nclb.gov/

National Conference of State Legislators "Adequate Yearly Progress: Each state shall submit to the Secretary of Education a plan demonstrating that the state has developed and is implementing a single (unitary), statewide state accountability system that will be effective in ensuring that all local education agencies (LEA's), public elementary schools, and public secondary schools make adequate yearly progress (AYP. "
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/educ/AYP.htm

Accountability and Assessment "California Department of Education"
www.cde.ca.gov/ac

Fontana Unified School District "Educational Accountability"
www.fontana.k12.ca.us/home/EdAccnt/

The National Assessment Governing Board "The Governing Board is an independent, bipartisan group whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives, and members of the general public".
http://www.nagb.org/

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