21. National Assessment Of Educational Progress NAEP reports on US student performance with comprehensive information about what students at grades Category Reference Education Educational testing...... Educational testing Service (ETS) is responsible for developing NAEP participationin the biennial assessment in reading states must include in the state plan http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/sla/ret/naep.html

Main RET Page Contact Info ERIC Internet Resources ... Writing Assessments National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) OVERVIEW For more than 30 years, information on what American students know and can do has been generated by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) . It is the first ongoing effort to obtain comprehensive and dependable achievement data on a national basis in a uniform and scientific manner. Commonly known as the "Nation's Report Card", NAEP is a congressionally mandated project of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) . NCES is responsible, by law, for administering the NAEP project through competitive awards to qualified organizations. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) , appointed by the Secretary of Education but independent of the Department of Education, governs and sets policy for NAEP. NAGB develops the frameworks that provide the theoretical basis for the assessment and specific direction for what kinds of knowledge and skills should be assessed, how the exercises should be designed, and how student responses should be scored. The frameworks are the result of comprehensive efforts in which teachers, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public worked to create a unified vision of how a particular subject ought to be assessed. This vision is based on current educational research on achievement and its measurement, and good educational practices. NAEP is a continuing, national survey of the knowledge and skills of young Americans in major learning areas taught in schools.

22. ACT : ACT Assessment : Registering : Taking The ACT Outside The 50 United States ACT's packet of materials for testing outside the United states includesa full listing of test centers, including telephone and fax numbers. http://www.act.org/aap/regist/outside.html

Taking the ACT Outside the 50 United States outside the 50 United States are the same as in the United States (October 26, 2002; December 14, 2002; February 8, 2003; April 12, 2003; and June 14, 2003). Not all centers are scheduled for every test date. outside the 50 United States are also the same as in the United States (October 25, 2003; December 13, 2003; February 7, 2004; April 3, 2004; and June 12, 2004). Not all centers are scheduled for every test date. Students must register directly with the supervisor of the test center where they wish to test, not with ACT and not via the Web. The deadline date for contacting the test center is the Friday two weeks before the scheduled test date. ACT's packet of materials for testing outside the United States includes a full listing of test centers, including telephone and fax numbers. To see a country's test centers, choose from the lists below. Canada Alberta British Columbia Manitoba Newfoundland Nova Scotia Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan US Territories American Samoa Federated States Of Micronesia Guam Marshall Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Other Countries Antigua And Barbuda Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil Cameroon Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia Congo Costa Rica Cuba Czech Republic Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lebanon Luxembourg

23. American Association Of School Administrators - Issues And Insights report presents the results of the 2001 assessment in geography from the Nationalassessment of Educational states Dubious of Federal testing Plan (6/11 http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/assessment/

search site awards and scholarships career center conferences education marketplace ... home Assessment / Standards Articles Reports/Resources Related Websites Articles Judge Hears Arguments On MCAS Graduation Rule With thousands of high school seniors' diplomas on the line, lawyers battled yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court over whether the state can legally require students to pass the MCAS exam to graduate from a Massachusetts public high school. From The Boston Globe State Exit Exam Gets Poor Grades Test required for high school graduation in 2004 is unfair, many experts and students say. From The Los Angeles Times School-Test Plan Faces Review U.S. officials will notify Iowa educators soon about the policy on assessing reading and math abilities in order to get aid. From The Des Moines Register Test-Takers Offered An Out A N.D. Diploma Richard Lundgren, principal at Eagle Valley Secondary School in Eagle Bend, refuses to take the chance that struggling students might not graduate because they couldn't pass Minnesota's basic-skills tests. He is offering them an escape: a North Dakota high school diploma. From The Minneaplis Star Tribune Tests Find USA, Not Students, Lacking

24. The Math Forum - Math Library - Assessment/Testing and the nation's governors states that our bibliography of available informationon alternative assessment. is hosted by the Educational testing Service (ETS http://mathforum.org/library/ed_topics/assessment/

Browse and Search the Library Home Math Ed Topics Teaching Issues/Strats : Assessment/Testing Library Home Search Full Table of Contents Suggest a Link ... Library Help Selected Sites (see also All Sites in this category Alternative Instruction and Alternative, Performance-Based Assessment - Jane Ehrenfeld; Math Forum Two annotated bibliographies designed to present ways in which assessment can be altered without drastic restructuring of class and curriculum. Some of the articles and books referenced have links to portfolio-based instruction and assessment, and can therefore provide resources for teachers interested in pursuing portfolio systems in their classrooms. All of the articles are math-related, and many give concrete lesson plans and suggestions for practice. more>> The Assessment Challenge in Statistics Education - Iddo Gal and J. B. Garfield (eds.) A book that discusses conceptual and pragmatic issues in the assessment of statistical knowledge and reasoning skills among students at the college and precollege (K12) levels, and the use of assessments to improve instruction. more>> Assessment - Classroom Compass The spring 1996 issue of Classroom Compass examines assessment as an integral part of the learning cycle. One activity, Thinking Aloud About Mathematics, provides an innovative idea for assessing student learning in a high school mathematics classroom. Excerpts from the National Science Education Standards and Assessment Standards for School Mathematics accompany the activity. A resource list, Classroom Assessment, completes the issue.

25. Computer Based Testing (CBT) Test Center List For States Starting With The Lette 7534 California Polytechnic State University South Perimeter Road assessment testing Center San Luis Obispo, California 93407 United states (805)7561551. http://etsis4.ets.org/tcenter/cbtdmlst.cfm

CBT Test Center List Alabama Birmingham - 2600 Prometric Testing Center 2700 Rogers Ave Suite 100 Birmingham, Alabama 35209 United States Decatur - 2608 Prometric Testing Center 2699 Sandlin Road SW Bldg. 8B Decatur, Alabama 35601 United States Dothan - 2611 Prometric Testing Center 3245 Montgomery Hwy. Suite 7 Dothan, Alabama 36303 United States Mobile - 2601 Prometric Testing Center 820 S. University Blvd. Suite 2C Mobile, Alabama 36609 United States Montgomery - 2603 Prometric Testing Center 2640 Zelda Road Montgomery, Alabama 36107 United States Tuscaloosa - 7720 University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 801 Campus Drive Student Services Center Room 205 Testing Center Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487 United States Alaska Anchorage - 5210 Prometric Testing Center 3401 Minnesota Drive University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska 99503 United States Fairbanks - 7734 Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks

26. Educate America - Student Assessment And Testing Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Equity Center position paper.Category Society Issues Education Standardized testing...... insist on the unfairness of assessing/testing students to a for a new policy (ie,national assessment) has important is one of the United states' most critical http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/educate/11.html

Equity Center Publications and Resources Educate America: A Call for Equity in School Reform Student Assessment and Testing We believe that neither excellence nor equity in education can be achieved as long as student assessment instruments, policies and practices limit opportunities to learn and narrow or dilute curricula and instruction. Both excellence and equity goals can, on the other hand, be served by assessments that help teachers to identify students' strengths as well as their needs and to determine the most appropriate and effective means of helping them to learn and grow. Standardized Testing and At Risk Students Alternatives Testing and Systemic Reform Criteria for Assessment Recommendations ... Conclusion Standardized Testing and At Risk Students Standardized tests have a disproportionate impact on students, teachers and curriculum in schools that serve low income and minority students (Mitchell 1992; Tate 1993). Some widely found effects that are of particular consequence for equity in education are reviewed briefly below. Testing and Ability Grouping A substantial share of U.S. schools engage in ability grouping or tracking of students beginning at the elementary and middle grade levels according to presumed ability levels. As a number of studies have shown, tracking almost always means that those pupils who need the most support to raise their performance levels get the least, while those who need it the least have it showered on them. The consequence is a two tiered system of education characterized by the following conditions.

27. Education Grants & Funding, Technology Products And Services, K-12 Lesson Plans The Frontline web site includes sections on testing, assessment, and Excellence students,as well as information on standards and testing in all 50 states. http://www.eschoolnews.com/features/nclb/index.cfm

Introduction eSN News You Can Use Additional Rescources No Child Left Behind ... Other Special Reports Under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, millions of students in grades three through eight will be required to take annual tests in reading and math, with their scores affecting for the first time how federal aid to their schools is allocated and spent. Schools with persistently low test scores would have to give some of their federal aid to students for tutoring or transportation to another public school. The reforms bring greater challenges for school leaders, who are charged with ensuring their students can meet new standards for learning. But not to worry eSchool News has assembled a host of resources to help you in this effort. eSN News You Can Use eSchool News Analysis: Technology will be key to schools' accountability efforts" An analysis of how technology will play a key role in helping schools meet the new achievement standards set forth in NCLB. "Real-time access to student data is a real boon for educators" Award-winning eSchool News columnist Nora Carr reveals why school leaders can no longer afford to wait until the end of the school year to find out whether their students know as much as they should.

28. NGA Center For Best Practices Brief discusses some of the advantages of computerbased testing and highlights effortsby several states and organizations to introduce electronic assessment. http://www.nga.org/center/divisions/1,1188,T_CEN_EDS^C_ISSUE_BRIEF^D_3126,00.htm

NGA Home Center Home Governors News Room ... Legislative Update Issues Coordinated School Health Early Childhood Extra Learning Opportunities Higher Education ... Turning Around Low Performing Schools What's New NCLB: Public School Choice Draft Guidance NGA summary of No Child Left Behind's draft public school choice guidance.... NCLB: Draft Guidance about the Impact of Title I on Charter Schools NGA summary of draft guidance about the impact of No Child Left Behind's Title I... NCLB: Promising Practices Summaries and links to No Child Left Behind promising practices.... NCLB: Supplemental Services Promising Practices NGA summary of promising state practices regarding No Child Left Behind's supplemental services provisions, and... NCLB: Accountability Promising Practices NGA summary of promising state accountability practices, and links to more information.... All Documents Education and the States Text Version Using Electronic Assessment to Measure Student Performance Contact: Dane Linn Education Policy Studies This Issue Brief discusses some of the advantages of computer-based testing and highlights efforts by several states and organizations to introduce electronic assessment. It also describes the challenges that governors face in planning and implementing such an initiative and details the steps they can take to pursue this type of testing.

29. NGA Center For Best Practices assessment/testing Key Dates. NCLB Provision. 200203. states must administer testsin reading and math at least once in grade spans 3-5, 6-9, 10-12. 2005-06. http://www.nga.org/center/divisions/1,1188,T_CEN_EDS^C_ISSUE_BRIEF^D_4767,00.htm

NGA Home Center Home Governors News Room ... Legislative Update Issues Coordinated School Health Early Childhood Extra Learning Opportunities Higher Education ... Turning Around Low Performing Schools What's New NCLB: Public School Choice Draft Guidance NGA summary of No Child Left Behind's draft public school choice guidance.... NCLB: Draft Guidance about the Impact of Title I on Charter Schools NGA summary of draft guidance about the impact of No Child Left Behind's Title I... NCLB: Promising Practices Summaries and links to No Child Left Behind promising practices.... NCLB: Supplemental Services Promising Practices NGA summary of promising state practices regarding No Child Left Behind's supplemental services provisions, and... NCLB: Accountability Promising Practices NGA summary of promising state accountability practices, and links to more information.... All Documents Education and the States Text Version NCLB: Timeline Contact: Kristin Conklin Education Policy Studies Contact: Dane Linn Education Policy Studies Contact: Scott Spicer Education Policy Studies NGA summary of the timeline requirements of No Child Left Behind.

30. Assessment And Testing Information However, some states do not allow modifications Under consideration testing intwo languages; assessing experiences in the assessment items; individualizing http://www.smarterkids.com/rescenter/assessment.asp

April 3, 2003 Testing Parents are as challenged by standardized tests as their kids (though the kids will never believe it). Parents have to help prep their kids for tests, interpret often arcane score reports, and then figure out what to do next. While our overall plan at SmarterKids is to help parents understand those next steps by matching kids’ educational needs with fun products that can help them learn, we also aim to help parents understand test scores and testing in general. Here are the answers to many frequently asked questions about testing and assessment. Testing Index: Nature of academic testing and young children Norm-Referenced Tests Criterion-Referenced Tests Other Types of Assessment ... I want to learn more about testing. What do you recommend? Nature of Academic Testing and Young Children Academic tests are designed to measure skills that are directly related to skills learned in the classroom, whether that classroom is in a public school, a private school, or a home school. Mastery of skills often falls somewhere on the continuum of emergent skills (those that are being learned)

31. MCEC: The Military Child Education Coalition || Serving Families, Students, And from research to present to states the case are in addition to the graduation (exit)level testing. More Information contact us at assessment@MilitaryChild.org. http://www.militarychild.org/testing.cfm

HOME ABOUT MCEC Goals Guiding Principles ... MARY KELLER Executive Director SHELLIE CAMPOS Comptroller ANA HERNANDEZ Administrative Assistant MONICA LORICH Administrative Membership Specialist MEMBERSHIP Assessment Editor ICC ... Webmaster 108 East FM 2410, Suite D P. O. Box 2519 Harker Heights, TX Ph: (254) 953-1923 Fax: (254) 953-1925 Office hrs: 9:00-5:00 CT GRADUATION EXIT EXAM MATRIX (PDF) This is an excellent resource from The National Governor's Association " All states represented in the matrices are at some stage of implementing a graduation exit exam. The first part of the two-part matrix lists states that require students to pass an exit exam in order to receive a diploma and graduate from high school. The second portion of the matrix includes three states in which there is a waiver process available for students or schools ."

32. Frontline: Testing Our Schools: Testing. Teaching. Learning? | PBS does your state compare to others on the National assessment of Educational tests,and find links to information on standards and testing in all 50 states. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/testing/

var loc = "../../../"; What are the uses and misuses of tests? Do higher test scores mean better schools? How does the intense pressure to raise test scores affect the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom? These are some of the questions FRONTLINE set out to explore in interviews with educators, policymakers, and educational testing experts across the country. What we found is that although standards-based reform has widespread support, experts see a danger in our reliance on standardized tests as the primary measure of school quality. Without the right kinds of tests, they say, and without an understanding of their proper uses, we may do more harm than good to public education in America. In the course of making "Testing Our Schools," correspondent John Merrow and producer John Tulenko interviewed teachers and school administrators who are grappling with the realities of increased testing and its effects for better and worse on the quality of teaching and learning. Here are excerpts from selected interviews with educators in two states, Virginia and California, where testing has already transformed what goes on in the classroom. "Today we are rushing headlong in search of the 'Holy Grail' of rising test scores," writes John Merrow. "Many unfortunate decisions are being made as pressure for 'accountability' overwhelms common sense." This excerpt from Merrow's new book

33. Frontline: Testing Our Schools: Testing: Testing, Assessment, And Excellence | P the turn of the century, 28 states either already assessment relies on teachermadetests, teacher evaluations the supporters of high-stakes testing have more http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/testing/merrow.html

var loc = "../../../"; an excerpt from Choosing Excellence: "Good Enough" Schools Are Not Good Enough (Scarecrow Press, 2001) John Merrow has been reporting on education since 1974. He is the executive producer and host of The Merrow Report on both PBS and NPR, and president of Learning Matters, Inc., the non-profit organization that produces The Merrow Report 's television, radio, and Web programs. Excellent schools are accountable for their "products," the students who pass through their classrooms, but what exactly do we mean by the term accountable? This chapter explores the meaning of accountability, the growth of the standards movement, and an accompanying rise in what is called "high-stakes testing." To be forthright, I believe that high-stakes testing, in its current manifestation, is a serious threat to excellence and national standards. Unchecked, it will choke the life out of many excellent schools and drive gifted teachers out of classrooms. Unchecked, it will lead to debased and unnecessarily low standards. High-stakes tests have serious consequences for those taking them, and sometimes in the careers of their teachers and administrators. A good example is the high school graduation test that students must pass in order to get a diploma. By the turn of the century, 28 states either already had or planned to have such tests.

34. K-12 State And International Testing To access your states curriculum use the STATE testing PAGES CONTAINING SAMPLE ORRELEASED QUESTIONS FLORIDA Comprehensive assessment Test (FCAT FCAT Sample http://www.edinformatics.com/testing/testing.htm

TESTING AND ASSESSMENT Today is Educational Databases Curriculum International, US, state and local frameworks... Lesson Plans- database of reviewed lesson plans... Educational Agencies International, US and State ... School Stats info on schools and state tests Research- Search engines online journals, Medline ... recent research and articles... Professional Development- Teaching and Learning ... State Tests US Math Reading Science Tests.... Java Applets - math, science, language, children's games... Parent's Guide- - Locate schools, state tests... State Education Pages Select your state Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming CHECK YOUR STATE PAGE!

35. K-12 State And International Testing The assessment tables shown below are provided to allow teachers and parents quickassess Do the California Mathematics Standards follow those of other states? http://www.edinformatics.com/testing/cal.htm

SUMMER 2000 Today is Educational Databases Curriculum International, US, state and local frameworks... Lesson Plans- database of reviewed lesson plans... Educational Agencies International, US and State ... School Stats info on schools and state tests Research- Search engines online journals, Medline ... recent research and articles... Professional Development- Teaching and Learning ... State Tests US Math Reading Science Tests.... Java Applets - math, science, language, children's games... Parent's Guide- - Locate schools, state tests... State Education Pages Select your state Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming CHECK YOUR STATE PAGE!

36. The ABM Treaty And Missile Defense Testing:Does The United States Need To Withdr our technical analysis shows that this testing rationale is no compelling reason forthe United states to withdraw By the Pentagon's own assessment, the SPY1 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/missile_defense/page.cfm?pageID=559

37. ED465544 2001-12-00 The State Of State Proficiency Testing In Science. ERIC Dige assessment Programs (See http//publications.ccsso.org/ccsso/publication_detail.cfm?PID=350).Of states surveyed, 39 reported some form of proficiency testing http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed465544.html

ERIC Identifier: Publication Date: Author: Haury, David L. Source: ERIC Clearinghouse for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education Columbus OH. The State of State Proficiency Testing in Science. ERIC Digest. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC Schools across the United States are striving to improve student performance in science by adjusting curricula and teaching practices to meet national and state standards. "Standards-based reform" is the rallying cry for these efforts to enliven the "National Science Education Standards" (NSES: National Research Council, 1996). Ongoing reform in science education has intensified in response to the results of widely reported national and international studies of student understanding. Despite rapid advancements in science and technology within the nation, most U.S. school students have not performed all that well on tests of scientific knowledge and understanding. THE MOVE TO HIGH STAKES TESTING One prominent new strategy for ensuring accountability and higher performance among students has come to be known as "high-stakes" testing, the use of test scores to determine which students will graduate or which will be promoted from one grade to the next. In some cases the stakes may also include decisions about which teachers will get salary bonuses, or which schools will get extra funds to support academic improvements. This rapidly spreading practice was once described as "the latest silver bullet designed to cure all that ails public education" (Kunen, 1997). But is it a bullet that cures, or does it kill? Does high-stakes accountability testing support standards-based reform efforts, or hinder them?

38. Interstate School Leaders ETS to develop the portfolio instrument and participated in the fieldtesting phaseof the project. Some states will use the portfolio assessment for licensure http://www.ccsso.org/isllc.html

Background Standards for School Leaders The ISLLC Standards for School Leaders were adopted by the Consortium in 1996 and are in use throughout the country. Currently, thirty-five states have either adopted or adapted the ISLLC Standards and are in different stages of implementing the Standards in reforming educational leadership within their state. All ISLLC projects are linked to and based on these Standards. Over 25,000 copies of the ISLLC Standards for School Leaders have been disseminated to date. The ISLLC Standards for School Leaders can be ordered from the CCSSO publications office at 202-336-7016 for $10. ISLLC Standards for School Leaders, Acrobat File ISLLC Standards for School Leaders, HTML File School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) The School Leaders Licensure Assessment (SLLA) is a performance-based assessment for the licensure of new school principals and assistant or vice-principals. The assessment was developed by ISLLC and ETS. The SLLA is grounded in research and linked directly to the ISLLC Standards for School Leaders. In collaboration with ETS, six states from the Consortium funded and developed an assessment for the initial licensing of beginning principals. The (SLLA) began national administration in October 1998. Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina are using the SLLA for licensure, and several other states are in discussions with ISLLC and ETS to use the SLLA in their states. NOTE For information on registration for the SLLA, testing dates, and test prep materials, please visit the

39. Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Assessment Strategies (Curriculum Design) testing Systems in Most states Not ESEAReady; testing, Accountability ACT SAT Modifications A Summary; assessment Accommodations; GED testing http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/Homework/Teacher/Resourc

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40. NCS Pearson Testing - NCS Schoolhouse process and meet new testing requirements—the Control District assessment coordinators—whoknow enrollment and process, and, if required, states can have http://www.ncspearson.com/testing/schoolhouse.htm

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