SEDL - Making Assessment Work for Everyone: Credits and Ordering Information

Ordering Information

You may view Making Assessment Work for Everyone free on this Web site. You may also obtain an electronic copy of the entire document by downloading this Portable Document Format (PDF) file that contains Sections 1-5 and 7-8. (Section 6 is not available electronically due to copyright restrictions.)

If you would like a print copy of Making Assessment Work for Everyone, you may order copies through the SEDL Catalog, or you may order copies from WestEd at the address below.

Credits

Making Assessment Work for Everyone was produced by The Assessment Laboratory Network Project (LNP) as a collaborative effort of seven of the ten Regional Educational Laboratories:

Patricia Kusimo - AEL, Inc.
Melissa G. Ritter - Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
Kathleen Busick - Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
Chris Ferguson - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
Elise Trumbull - WestEd
Guillermo Solano-Flores - WestEd

The Assessment Laboratory Network Project (LNP) of the Regional Educational Laboratories

The REL Assessment LNP is dedicated to improving student learning on a national scale by providing access to resources, technical assistance, and professional development in the area of classroom assessment. Making Assessment Work for Everyone results from a collaborative effort of seven of the regional educational laboratories that make up the Language, Culture, and Diversity strand of the REL Assessment LNP. In some cases, core Assessment LNP staff contributed to the development of this publication; in other cases, REL staff with particular expertise in language, culture, and diversity issues in assessment contributed their efforts to this publication.

Other products developed by the REL Assessment LNP include:

Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Developers, Toolkit 98 - 1200+ power-packed pages, including text, 37 training activities with instructions, teacher-friendly readings about classroom assessment issues, and sample assessments representing a variety of design options to be used to promote discussion.
This publication is available in the SEDL Catalog.
The Assessment LNP Web site at www.wested.org/acwt/ which houses information about existing and upcoming Assessment LNP products and events.
The Promising Practices in Assessment Database (PPAD) accessible through the Assessment LNP Web site - a searchable online database containing a variety of high-quality, assessment-focused materials developed by the 10 regional educational laboratories.

New products in process include a training module to help teachers and districts better use assessment data to enhance classroom practice, and a database of assessment software packages.

Below is a list of the Regional Educational Laboratories, as of January, 2000.

AEL, Inc.
The LAB at Brown (LAB)
Laboratory for Student Success (LSS)
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NREL)
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
The Regional Educational Laboratory at SERVE
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
WestEd

Acknowledgements

With thanks to participating regional educational laboratory leaders for their support, encouragement, and resources. Many other individuals also contributed time and ideas during the production of Making Assessment Work for Everyone.

Thanks to Mahna Schwager, Fredrika Baer, and Jerome Shaw of WestEd; Suzie Boss and Kathy Peterson of NWREL; David von Broekhuizen of PREL; and Gerald D. Swick (associated with AEL) for their work on copyediting, production, formatting, and layout.

Thanks to those authors allowing us to reprint their articles for Section VII: Rethinking Schools, David Sadker, and Debra Viadero.

Special thanks to those individuals whose review of Making Assessment Work for Everyone provided insights, thoughtful suggestions, and external perspectives essential to the quality of our work: Judy Arter, Training Director, Assessment Training Institute, Portland, Oregon; Ruth Sutton, Consultant, Salford, England; Wendy Feerer, Valencia Elementary, Los Lunas, New Mexico; and Amanda Pérez, Mar Vista Elementary School, Oxnard, California.

Disclaimer

This publication was funded wholly or in part by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, under contract number RJ96006901. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views of any individual laboratory, the Department of Education, or any other agency of the U.S. government.

Library of Congress Card Number: 00-106573