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LADs--Local Assessment Development |
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MAPs--Maine Assessment Portfolio |
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SchoolMatters.com--National educational data service that provides student proficiency results, student demographic information, district and state financial data, community demographic data, and Standard & Poor's unique ratios |
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Maine School Profiles--Maine Department of Education |
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Why Replacing Maine's 11th-Grade Assessment with the SAT is a Good Idea--Even If It is Not a Perfect Solution--Great Maine Schools Project [*72KB PDF file] |
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Governor Outlines Proposed Adjustments to Learning Results
--4 Apr 2005 |
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Report to Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins
--Task Force on No Child Left Behind, March 2005 [*284KB PDF file] |
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB), U.S. Department of Education |
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Maine's Comprehensive Assessment System (MeCAS) |
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Innovations in Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education--free online books detail how school systems across the country are working to implement NCLB |
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ELM--Electronic Learning Marketplace, resources compiled by the University of Southern Maine to help Maine teachers align their classroom practice with the Maine Learning Results |
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Comprehensive Local Assessment Systems (CLASs) Primer, A Guide to Assessment System Design and Use, Southern Maine Partnership, USM, March 2003 [*2.3MB PDF file] |
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Content Area Frameworks: Creating a bridge between the Learning Results and the classroom, Southern Maine Partnership, USM, December 2002 [*1.9MB PDF file] |
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Assessment and Rubric Information, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators |
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Edutopia: Assessment, The George Lucas Educational Foundation |
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Assessment Resources, Coalition of Essential Schools. Includes planning backwards, portfolios, exhibitions, using rubrics, and alternative transcripts. |
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PALS--Performance Assessment Links in Science, SRI International, Center for Technology in Learning |
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Whelmers: McREL's Accessible Science Series, science activities aligned with the National Science Education Standards |
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Science Projects, which link multiple disciplines, curriculum, instruction, and assessment, by Classrooms of the 21st Century |
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Secondary Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database (SMARD), Sharp Corporation |
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Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects, Fermilab Education Office |
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Articles about Assessment, New Horizons for Learning. Includes a Glossary of Assessment Terms |
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"Designing Performance Assessments: Challenges for the Three-Story Intellect, by Jo Anne Wangsatorntanakhun, Ruamrudee International School, Bangkok, Thailand |
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How to Develop a Standards-Based Unit of Study, Kentucky Department of Education |
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Attributes of a Standards-Based Unit of Study, Kentucky Department of Education |
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"Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the Classroom", by Anne Buchanan |
