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Reading Assessment Database for Grades PreK–3 This database, a complementary tool to the Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework, enables reading teachers to search for preK–3 reading assessments that test the framework's 14 reading skills.
Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Staff Developers, Toolkit 98 This two-volume resource for trainers contains findings and approaches to blending assessment with instruction to improve student learning.
Making Assessment Work for Everyone: How to Build on Student Strengths This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective.
Professional Learning Communities Assessment-Revised (PLCA-R) Online The Professional Learning Communities Assessment-Revised (PLCA-R) is a questionnaire that assesses your perceptions about your principal, staff, and stakeholders based on the dimensions of a professional learning community (PLC) and related attributes. This questionnaire contains a number of statements about practices that occur in some schools. PLCA-R participants read a series of statements and then use a scale to select the scale point that best reflects their personal degree of agreement with the statement. The PLCA-R reports scores along the following dimensions: Shared and Supportive Leadership; Shared Values and Vision; Collective Learning and Application; Shared Personal Practice; Supportive Conditions - Relationships; and Supportive Conditions - Structures.
Working Systemically in Action: A Guide for Facilitators Produced by a team of SEDL staff who drew upon more than 3 decades of school reform research and theory, the Working Systemically approach is a process for school improvement and increased student achievement that focuses on key components and competencies at all levels of the educational system.
Quick Takes (July 2002): Assessment: What is the Best Way to Monitor My Child's Progress in Mathematics and Science? This issue of Quick Takes, a newsletter exploring reform issues in math and science education, examines math and science assessment.
Classroom Compass, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1996): Assessment: A Window to Learning This issue of Classroom Compass, a newsletter for teachers, focuses on assessment as an integral part of the learning cycle.
Texas Focus, Vol. 1, No. 4 (2008): Collecting, Interpreting and Using Data in the Working Systemically Approach This issue of Texas Focus, published by SEDL’s Texas Comprehensive Center, discusses the importance of data—including assessment data—in the Working Systemically model of school improvement.
Rapid Response: Eighth-Grade Technology Literacy Assessment This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to the request, “What are states in the southeastern region using as assessment tools for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) eighth-grade technology literacy?” The SECC conducted a comparative study of 16 states to address the question.
Rapid Response: GED Test and State Assessment Completion for High School Diploma This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to a request for information about how many states are allowing high school students who complete the General Educational Development (GED) tests to receive a high school diploma instead of a GED, thereby increasing the high school graduation rates.