PTC Course Resources

Assessment Leadership in the International School

WEB RESOURCES

External Assessment

Curriculum Associates (Adaptive assessment)
www.curriculumassociates.com/products/iready/iready-adaptive-diagnostic-assessment.aspx

GL Education
www.gl-education.com

International Schools' Assessment
http://www.acer.edu.au/isa

Measures of Academic Progress
www.nwea.org/assessments/map/

Questar Assessment Inc
www.questarai.com/

Smarter Balance
www.smarterbalanced.org/ 

Teachthought
http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/assessment/16-standardized-tests-being-used-in-education-today/

Feedback

Assistments - online feedback system
http://www.assistments.org/

Edugains
www.edugains.ca

John Hattie research on feedback (ask Bambi for full article)
http://rer.sagepub.com/content/77/1/81

What learning looks like
http://joe-bower.blogspot.com/2013/01/heres-what-learning-looks-like.html

Formative (On-Going) Assessment

Ideas and commentary
https://www.nwea.org/blog/category/formative-assessment/page/3/ 
https://www.nwea.org/blog/2018/the-ultimate-list-65-digital-tools-and-apps-to-support-formative-assessment-practices/

Retrieval Practice & Bloom’s Taxonomy: Do Students Need Fact Knowledge Before Higher Order Learning?e
https://pdf.poojaagarwal.com/Agarwal_2018_JEdPsych.pdf

White paper and very extensive annotated bibliography
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Positions/formative-assessment_single.pdf

General Sites

Achieve
https://www.achieve.org/our-initiatives

Assessment for Learning
www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/default.asp

Assessing 21st Century Skills
http://atc21s.org/

Benchmarking
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/

Contextual/Performance Assessment
http://www.gettingsmart.com/publication/assessing-deeper-learning-survey-performance-assessment-mastery-tracking-tools/

Context and Learning
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888691.2017.1398649

Digital Chalkboard
https://www.mydigitalchalkboard.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=505706&sciId=15873

Computer Adaptive and Personalized Learning
https://www.inqits.com/

Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide
http://archive.wceruw.org/cl1/flag/default.asp

Instructure
www.instructure.com/

OECD Report on Assessment Internationally
www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/education/synergies-for-better-learning-an-international-perspective-on-evaluation-and-assessment_9789264190658-en

Pearson School Systems
www.pearsonschoolsystem.com/

Stenhouse Publishers: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom
www.stenhouse.com/html/implementing-fair-isnt-always-equal.htm

University of Minnesota: Center for Applied Research
https://www.cehd.umn.edu/carei/resources.html

George Lucas Foundation
http://www.edutopia.org/

Assessment Training Institute
http://ati.pearson.com/tools-resources/papers.html

Standards
www.awesomelibrary.org/Office/Teacher/Standards/Standards.html

McREL Mid Continental Research for Education & Learning
www.mcrel.org/

Authentic Assessment in Mathematics
forum.swarthmore.edu/sum94/project2.html

Assessment Resource Center
https://arc.missouri.edu/

NWREL Assessment Models
educationnorthwest.org/resource/focus/Assessment

Practical Assessment Research & Evaluation
www.pareonline.net/

BETSY: Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System
edres.org/betsy

Learn NC: K-12 Teaching University of North Carolina
https://humanities.unc.edu/ck12/additional-resources-for-teachers/

Science Daily: Mind & Brain News
www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/

Assessment Matters!
ozpk.tripod.com/assess.html#

Proctor U - online proctoring service
http://proctoru.com/index.php 

The 2Learn.ca Education Society
www.2learn.ca/

Leadership and Learning Center
www.leadandlearn.com/

Funny Answers from kids!
https://www.facebook.com/1013993518666836/posts/2973358329397002/?d=n

Grading, Recording, Reporting

Asylum Software: Markbook
www.markbook.com/

Flubaroo - a grading assistant
http://www.flubaroo.com/

Mastery Transcript Consortium: exciting new way to record mastery of all learning
https://mastery.org/a-new-model/

Rediker
http://www.rediker.com/solutions/student-information-system/report-cards-grades

Standards-based Grading and Reporting - Thomas GUskey and Lee Ann Jung
http://ljung0.wix.com/grading

Leadership

Assessment Training Institute (ATI)
ati.pearson.com/

Leadership and Learning Center
www.leadandlearn.com/

Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership
www.portical.org/Presentations/silberberg2/

Rubrics

Carnegie Mellon University, Performance Criteria
www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/examples/courselevel-bytype/performancecriteria/index.html

rubistar.4teachers.org

Rubrics 4 Teachers
www.rubrics4teachers.com/

Teachnology
www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Research on Learning and Assessment

Great School Partnerships | Research Supporting the Ten Principles: Assessment Practices
https://www.greatschoolspartnership.org/proficiency-based-learning/research-evidence/research-supporting-ten-principles-assessment-practices/

Research on Classroom Assessment
ati.pearson.com/tools-resources/index.html

Psycnet
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fedu0000282

Sample Tasks

Assessment for Learning Australia
www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/assessment_tasks/assessment_tasks_landing.html

Balanced Assessment Tasks
balancedassessment.concord.org

Center for Applied Linguistics
www.cal.org/topics/ta/

Exemplars: Standards Based Assessment
www.exemplars.com/

JMueller - tasks from all subject areas
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/examples/authentictaskexamples.htm

Next Generation Science Tasks
www.nextgenscience.org/classroom-sample-assessment-tasks

Perforance Assessment Resource Bank
http://www.performanceassessmentresourcebank.org/bin/performance-tasks

Secondary Math Tasks
http://www.utdanacenter.org/k12mathbenchmarks/tasks/tasks.php

Samples of Student Work

Larry Ferlazzo-Teacher
larryferlazzo.com/Student%20Work.html

Samples of PYP Assessments
https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=p_0_pypxx_pas_1305_2_e&part=3&chapter=1

Standards Based Reporting

Newspaper Article Explaining to Parents
mathforum.org/kb/forum.jspa?forumID=204

Technology tools and platforms for assessment

Naiku
http://www.naiku.net/

PRINT RESOURCES

Boudett, City, and Murnane; Data Wise by (2013)

Brown, Rodiger, McDaniel: Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (2014)

Chapman, Carolyn and King, Rita: Differentiated Assessment Strategies:One Tool Doesn't Fit All

Chappuis, Rick, Chappuis and Arter; Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right - Using It Well

Gardner, John;  Assessment and Learning

Hattie, John; Visible Learning : A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

Hattie, John and Yates, Gregory C.R.; Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn

James-Ward, Fisher, Frey, and Lapp; Using Data to Focus Instructional Improvement by  (2013)

Lang, James: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2016)

McMillan, James H.;(preview version on Goggle Books) Sage Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment

Noyce, Pendred E.,Hickey, Damile T.

Perkins, David; Making Learning Whole

Popham, W. James;  Transformative Assessment

O'Connor, Ken;  Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grading

Shepard, Lorrie; New Frontiers in Formative Assessment

Sanzo, Karen L., Myran, Steve; Formative Assessment Leadership

Sousa, David A.; (2010); Mind, Brain, & Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom

Tokuhama-Espinos, Tracey; (2011) Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain ...

Vatterott, Cathy; (2015) Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning; ASCD