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Adventures in Assessment, Volume 14 http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/adventures_vol14.html

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 http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/sep98a.htm#assessing

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 http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/masters/Policy_Brief_02.doc

This policy brief explains the EFF approach to developing good assessment tools.

Authentic Accountability http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/AleAccountability

A discussion of accountability and "authentic accountability" (Eckert and Bell, 2004) in adult literacy education. From the Adult Literacy Education Wiki (ALEWiki).

Coalition of Essential Schools - Authentic Assessment http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/query/q/1017?x-r=runnew

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 http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/report1.pdf

This policy paper lays out key issues in performance accountability and presents recommendations for policy and action.

Creating Rubrics Through Negotiable Contracting and Assessment http://www.interactiveclassroom.com/articles_006.htm

"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 http://education.umn.edu/nceo/Presentations/CraftingCurricula.pdf

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 http://www.nrsweb.org/reports/PerformanceAssessments.pdf

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 http://www.sabes.org/resources/fieldnotes/vol10/fn103.htm

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 http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/hot_topics/EFF_HOT_020604.pdf

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 http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/eff_nrs_2002.html

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 http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/eff/ananda_eff.pdf

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 http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/report13.pdf

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 http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/op_bingman.pdf

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 http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084539/html/

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 http://www.cal.org/resources/news/2002fall/performance.html

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 http://www.sabes.org/resources/adventures/vol12/12mcguire.htm

This publication offers ideas for beginning to think about assessment within the EFF framework.

Performance Puzzles: Issues in Measuring Capabilities and Certifying Accomplishments http://www.cse.ucla.edu/Reports/TECH415.PDF

This article explores issues involved in using assessments as a means of defining standards and encouraging efforts to meet them.

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