Assessment / Rubrics

Assessments -- Chicago Public Schools
An excellent resource including a page called the Rubric Bank.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Looking for information on rubrics -- check out this page on Kathy Schrock's great site.

Middle Grade Resources -- Assessment and Evaluation
"Learn more about performance standards, rubrics, and assessment strategies that can improve teaching and learning," is how this page of links is described by MidleWeb, a site promoting achievement in the middle grades.

Understanding Rubrics in the Middle Grades
A link from the page above.

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
PARE is an on-line journal whose stated purpose is "to provide education professionals access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice. . . ."

Project Based Learning
Project Based learning activities often lend themselves to alternative assessment. 4teachers is under the auspices of HPR*TEC (High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium), but the resources and information at this site go far beyond technology integration. The RubiStar site (below) is a page on this site.

RubiStar
This site is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics to evaluate project-based learning assignments.