Technology Leadershop Team Institute. Brunssum, The Netherlands

Selected Web Resources

Assessment and Evaluation

ENGAGED LEARNING

Plugging In

Plugging In: Choosing and Using Educational Technology is available as an HTML document, a free Adobe Acrobat file, or as a print document. Plugging In discusses what is known about effective learning and effective technology, and puts it together in a planning framework for educators and policymakers.

http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/plug/plug.htm

Meaningful, Engaged Learning (Pathways)

In recent years, researchers have formed a strong consensus on the importance of engaged learning in schools and classrooms. This consensus, together with a recognition of the changing needs of the 21st century, has stimulated the development of specific indicators of engaged learning. Jones, Valdez, Nowakowski, and Rasmussen (1994) developed the indicators described below. These indicators of engaged learning can act as a "compass" for reform instruction, helping educators chart an instructional course and maintain an orientation based on a vision of engaged learning and what it looks like in the classroom and community.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/engaged.htm

Critical Issue: Creating High-Achieving Learning Environments (Pathways)

School leaders need to help teachers create high-achieving learning environments for all students, where the most advanced curriculum and instruction techniques combine to support learning. In a high-achieving learning environment, teachers engage students in complex problem solving and exploring ideas and issues, and classroom activities draw on students' culture, experiences, and knowledge.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le400.htm

What Is a Thinking Curriculum?

T.F. Fennimore and M.B. Tinzmann

NCREL, Oak Brook, 1990

Strategic learners have a repertoire of thinking and learning strategies that they use with skill and purpose to think about and control their own learning and guide their learning of new content.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/thinking.htm

Critical Issue: Working Toward Student Self-Direction and Personal Efficacy as Educational Goals (Pathways)

Because learning in schools is traditionally dominated and controlled by adults, students seldom make decisions about their own learning (Goodlad, 1984). Even though our philosophies of education purport to graduating students who are responsible citizens capable of participating thoughtfully in a democracy, our educational practices have a tendency to foster dependence, passivity and a "tell me what to do and think" attitude.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr200.htm

ASSESSMENT

Educatorsí Technology Center ñ Engaging Assessment

http://etc.iupui.edu/assess.html

Coalition of Essential Schools

Overview of Alternative Assessment Approaches

What Tools Should I Use for Assessing Learning?

ÝÝÝÝÝ Assessments can be classified into four categories: tests, product/project assessments, performance assessments, and process skills assessments. All types are useful; however, each has limitations. Therefore, maintaining a balance becomes of utmost importance.

http://www.essentialschools.org/fieldbook/strategies/assessment/excelsiorsprings/overview.html

Assessment

ÝÝÝÝÝ Portfolios

ÝÝÝÝÝ Exhibitions

ÝÝÝÝÝ Alternative Transcripts

ÝÝÝÝÝ Standardized Tests

ÝÝÝÝÝ Performance Assessment (including "alternative" & "authentic")

http://www.essentialschools.org/fieldbook/strategies/assessment/assessment.html

ALPS: Active Learning Practices for Schools

MiddleWeb says: ìThis remarkable Web site demonstrates active teaching and learning on the Internet at an unprecedented level -- at least in our experience. Most exciting, perhaps, is that it's a "beta" site, still under development. ALPS allows teachers and teacher support staff to collaborate with educational researchers and curriculum designers working at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and Harvard's Project Zero. The site includes model lesson plans and activities; curriculum design tools; online educational publications; and interactive forums, workshops and conferences and teacher journals reflecting on practice. The site is built around three themes: Teaching for Understanding; The Thinking Classroom; and Education with New Technologies.î

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/

What is Ongoing Assessment?

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/tfu/info3f.cfm

What are Performances of Understanding?

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/tfu/info3e.cfm

Education with New Technologies

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/home/index.cfm

STANDARDS

Vermont Standards

States Enlisting Online Tools To Help Promote Standards

By Andrew Trotter, Fairlee, Vt

Education Week - December 8, 1999

http://www.edweek.com/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=15online.h19

Vermont's Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities

http://www.state.vt.us/educ/stand/page3.htm

Education Week - Assessment Issues Page

What you test is what you get.

That's the realization driving a vast and sometimes controversial movement to overhaul the way America's schools measure student achievement. One goal is to find a more accurate way to measure student success and hold schools accountable. But make no mistake: The debate over assessment is at heart a debate over education reform.

http://www.edweek.com/context/topics/assess.htm

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

ISTE is a professional organization for educators interested in technological applications in education. They have led the way in developing student and teacher technology competencies as well as developing many resources for training and professional development. ISTE's journal, Learning & Leading with Technology, offers information on both technical and integrative issues

http://www.iste.org/

ISTE Standards Projects

What We Do To adequately prepare our students for adult citizenship in the Information Age, computer-related technology must become a tool that students and teachers use routinely. This is one of ISTE's core goals. ISTE has consistently taken a leadership role in establishing standards for the effective use of information technology in education.

http://www.iste.org/Standards/index.html

The Apple Education Seminar series: Choosing Digital Contents to Match Your Standards

Technical and curriculum standards are important to everyone. School districts, states, and the U.S. are adopting standards for schools and students. The National Education Technology Standards (NETS) Project was developed by ISTE and other key education organizations to provide a consensus on national technical standards, on what students should be able to do with technology.

http://www.apple.com/education/k12/events/semseries/seminar1.html

MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School Reform

The MiddleWeb Guide to Standards-Based School Reform

http://www.middleweb.com/SBRGuide.html#anchor1543571

"Creating the Standards-Based Classroom" (PDF file)

These stories are from the fifth issue of Changing Schools in Long Beach -- a tabloid newspaper published by the Focused Reporting Project. This is our first full-color issue and it is posted in Adobe Acrobat PDF format (878k). You will need the Acrobat Reader software (free at this site) to view the issue. If you would like a paper copy, please send

us your name and postal address. [HINT: If you'd like to print this file, set your print or page-setup setting to 80%.]

http://www.middleweb.com/CSLB5.html

Making Students Part of Setting Standards

Students in this urban middle school are readying themselves to deal thoughtfully and decently with the diverse, impersonal, and sometimes violent world ahead. Article from "Performance," a publication of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Another article of interest: A Big School Takes the Team Approach. "In the midst of its population explosion this middle school improved student performance by strengthening team structures that make school more personal and inclusive."

http://www.middleweb.com/SBRGuide.html#anchor1543571

Assessment and Evaluation:

Resources on the Internet

ÝÝÝÝÝ http://www.middleweb.com/Assmntlinks.html

GENERAL

The Regional Technology in Education Consortia

(R*TEC) program is established to help states, local educational agencies, teachers, school library and media personnel, administrators, and other education entities successfully integrate technologies into kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) classrooms, library media centers, and other educational settings, including adult literacy centers.

http://rtec.org/

Baldrige National Quality Program 1999

Criteria for Performance Excellence

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was created by Public Law 100-107, signed into law on August 20, 1987. The Award Program, responsive to the purposes of Public Law 100-107, led to the creation of a new public-private partnership. Principal support for the program comes from the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, established in 1988.

http://www.quality.nist.gov/docs/99_crit/99crit.htm

Welcome to Ericae.net

Your clearinghouse for assessment, evaluation and research information

We provide balanced information concerning educational assessment, evaluation and research methodology, and resources to encourage the responsible use of educational data.

http://ericae.net/

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Source for books and other materials

http://www.ascd.org/