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Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles [1]
Based on the Adult Reading Component Study (ARCS), this Web site provides a mini-course on assessment and instruction of reading components, as well as tests and word lists that practitioners can download, and links to research.
Adventures in Assessment, Volume 14 [2]
All articles are focused on performance-based assessment for the classroom; includes an article on involving students in research.
Assessing Adult Learners Through Project-Based Learning Instruction [3]
This describes project-based learning and assessment and how these are incorporated into students' instruction.
Assessing Results That Matter: Equipped for the Future's Approach to Assessment for Adult Basic Education Accountability and Improvement [4]
This policy brief explains the EFF approach to developing good assessment tools.
Authentic Accountability [5]
A discussion of accountability and "authentic accountability" (Eckert and Bell, 2004) in adult literacy education. From the Adult Literacy Education Wiki (ALEWiki).
Authentic Assessment Toolbox [6]
A "how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning."
Coalition of Essential Schools - Authentic Assessment [7]
This website provides a collection of articles and resources focused on the benefits and requirements of authentic assessment.
Contested ground: performance accountability in adult basic education [8]
This policy paper lays out key issues in performance accountability and presents recommendations for policy and action.
Creating Rubrics Through Negotiable Contracting and Assessment [9]
"Negotiable contracting" is a method of assessment that involves students in the process of their instruction and evaluation.
Crafting curricula aims for instructionally supportive assessment [10]
This article analyzes how state curriculum can be optimally configured to foster instructionally supportive assessment.
Developing performance assessments for adult literacy learners: a summary For NRS guidelines [11]
States that develop their own assessments must follow the procedures outlined in this paper in order to use them for National Reporting System accountability.
Essential Elements of Student Assessment Field Notes, Volume 10, Number 3: Assessment [12]
Dedicated to assessment issues ranging from accountability to professional development to aligning curriculum and classroom assessment.
EFF Hot Topics: An Introduction to the Ten-Step Cycle as an Important Learning Tool for You [13]
The ten-step cycle conveys the ways in which assessment gets integrated throughout the process of instruction.
Equipped for the Future Assessment Report: EFF/NRS Data Collection Project, 2000-2001 [14]
The goal of the project is to enable programs using EFF as a framework for instruction to report student progress from level to level on the NRS.
Equipped for the Future Assessment Report: How Instructors Can Support Adult Learners Through Performance-Based Assessment [15]
Specific performance-based assessment methods useful for basing instruction on EFF standards.
I've come a long way: learner-identified outcomes of participation in adult literacy programs [16]
The Learner Identified Outcomes study brings learners' perspectives to the ongoing research conversation on outcomes of participation in adult literacy education.
Outcomes of participation in adult basic education: the importance of learners' perspective [17]
This paper suggests that learners have a different perspective on performance than the authors of the Workforce Investment Act.
Performance Assessments for Adult Education: Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop [18]
This federal report explores issues in using performance assessments as high stakes tests, and provides information on how to set quality guidelines for alternative assessments.
Performance-based assessment: promoting achievement for English language learners [19]
A discussion of the need for assessments that focus on classroom learning.
A Performance Framework for Teaching and Learning with the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Content Standards [20]
This publication offers ideas for beginning to think about assessment within the EFF framework.
Performance Puzzles: Issues in Measuring Capabilities and Certifying Accomplishments [21]
This article explores issues involved in using assessments as a means of defining standards and encouraging efforts to meet them.
The Rubric Bank [22]
In The Rubric Bank, you will find a wide variety of performance assessment scoring rubrics. These rubrics have been used by schools, districts and state departments of education throughout the country. The Web site also provides step-by-step directions for developing rubrics.
