Assessment is playing a larger role in the daily lives of teachers. Technology can help. Find ideas for integrating technology beyond mere scoring of print-based tests to a more universally designed assessment curriculum that supports progress monitoring and differentiation. To help assess your current technology use and chart a course toward increased technology implementation, consult the EdTech Locator.

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American Evaluation Association Online Resources

This is a list of online resources to design and conduct project evaluations.

American Evaluation Association

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Assessment Instruments for Linguistically Diverse Populations

This handbook provides a list of tools available for the assessment of communicative and academic skills of multicultural and linguistically diverse student populations. The format provides information of grade level and age appropriateness of assessment instruments.

Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE)

This website presents information on high-quality evaluations of educational programs, including "educator's summaries" of research on educational programs and full-text reviews on each topic.

Classroom 2.0

Classroom 2.0 is a social networking site for educators interested in Web 2.0 and bringing those technologies into their classrooms. Teachers can use it to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from each other.

Create Online Behavior Report Cards

Collect ongoing ratings of students’ behavior, work habits, and work completion with Daily Behavior Report Cards (DBRCs), which can be customized in daily or weekly format, as well as ready-to-use progress-monitoring charts.

Differentiating Instruction Through Technology Moodle

Check out presentations and resources shared in CITEd’s online, unfacilitated course on Differentiating Instruction. It’s free and will continue to grow as users post to the Forum and CITEd staff post new resources. Log in!

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EdTech Locator - Teachers

Use the EdTech Locator to identify where you, your school, or district is located on a continuum of technology integration. Map a course to deepen your technology integration to improve the achievement of all students. In addition, use CITEd's Teacher Self Assessment to help identify your placement on the Ed Tech Locator.

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Generation YES Blog

Created by Generation YES, this blog works with schools all around the world to plan, implement and enhance student technology programs through innovative curriculum, online tools and research-based support services. Generation YES focuses on student-centered, project-based experiences that impact student's lives and increase student involvement in school and community through technology, as well as improve the use of technology in the school as a whole.

Getting Started With Assistive Technology

Learning disabilities persist into adulthood and continue to challenge learners and educators alike. Learn more about what adult education and community college teachers are doing to understand students with LD, integrate assistive technology into instruction, and untangle English language learning difficulties from possible learning disabilities.

GLOBE Student Assessment

GLOBE Classroom Assessment Tools provides a general template that teachers can use to develop integrated investigation problems. Teachers may choose to use all or some of the assessment components as they are appropriate for assessing GLOBE within their particular science curriculum. To analyze student work, collaboration, communication, and generic scoring rubrics are provided as well.

Guidelines for Accessible Testing and Assessment

This resource is a section of the IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications. This section of guidelines are intended to promote access to tests and assessments by people with disabilities. This section generally pertains to almost any computer-based delivery and some non-computer-based delivery methods.

IMS Global Learning Consortium

Guidelines for Ensuring the Technical Quality of Assessments Affecting English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities

The Guidelines provide research-based information on key issues relevant to the technical quality of assessments for English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs).

Instructional Module Assessment

The assessment module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts.

Instructional Module Assessment

The assessment module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts.

Kurzweil 3000 Sample Tests: Standardized Test Samples

This site contains sample tests provided by the Massachusetts Department of Education as practice tests using Kurzweil 3000.

Kurzweil Educational Systems

Maryland Online IEP

The Maryland Online IEP is a tool developed by Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services in Partnership with Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education with funding from IDEA Part B, the U.S. Department of Education. The tool produces and maintains one complete record of IEP information for each child. The result is a high level of data integrity and accuracy from which educators and the families they serve can make effective decisions.

Math Matrix

The math matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of math for students with disabilities. Search for products and evidence among the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with special needs.

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National Alternate Assessment System

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the National Alternate Assessment Center brings together and builds on high quality, technically sound alternate assessments, and provides technical assistance through high quality dissemination practices.

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring

The tools chart developed by the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring can be used when comparing and selecting commercially available progress monitoring tools for the school or classroom. Each tool has undergone scientific review by the Center’s Technical Review Committee. The vendors of the tools have provided implementation information, which includes the cost of the tool, what is needed to implement it, the support users will receive from the vendor, how the tool is intended to be used, and with whom it should be used.

Student Progress Monitoring

National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Webcasts

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality hosts a series of live, interactive webcasts devoted to bringing solutions to issues of teaching in at-risk schools from the research, policy, and practice perspectives. Each webcast includes pre-webcast presentations that outline the problems associated with the issue and a post-webcast online discussion forum.

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