Assessment

Important Links

• Department of Education, Division of Assessment and Reporting
• ERIC Documents Database Citations & Abstracts for Constructing Scoring Rubrics
• National Reporting System-NRS Online
• NCLE Resource Collections: Assessment and Evaluation in Adult ESL

Articles, Journals, and Research

• About Assessment
• Adult ESL Learner Assessment: Purposes and Tools
• A Performance Standard for Teaching and Learning with the Equipped for the Future (EFF) Content Standards
• A Review of Statewide Learner and Assessment Competency Systems
• Assessing Workplace Performance Problems: A Checklist
• Assessment Components
• Assessment Concerns Regarding Computer Aided Instruction
• Assessment of English Language Learners in Adult Education Programs
• Developing a National Outcome Reporting System for the Adult Education Program
• "Did Anybody Learn Anything?" Assessing Technology Programs and the Learning Accomplished
• Discussion Continues on New Accountability Requirements
• Draft ABE/Literacy Standards-Rhode Island
• Employability Standards Across All Levels-Draft, Rhode Island
• Field Notes: Ever-Widening Circles: Involving Teachers in the Development of an Assessment System
• Learner Assessment in Adult ESL Literacy, Heidi Spruck Wrigley
• Measuring Results: What happens to student writing with the word processor?"
• NCSALL: The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Chapter 6, Perspectives on Assessment in Adult ESOL Instruction
• Needs Assessment for Adult ESL Learners
• Report on Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for the Learner
• Standard Bearer: The ESL Standards After a Decade of Accomplishments
• Techniques for Authentic Assessment
• The Art and Science of Classroom Assessment
• The Importance of Collecting Data
• The Second Language Assessment Project
• Thorny Issues of Reliability, Validity, and Fairness When Evaluating Portfolio Assessment
• What is a Rubric?

Materials For Sale

• Adult Diagnostic Reading Inventory
• Basic English Skills Test (BEST)
• McGraw-Hill: Assessment Products and Services, includes TABE
• Reading Evaluation and Literacy Diagnosis (READ Test-Literacy Volunteers of America)
• Quality assessment and accountability systems (CASAS)

Online Resources

• Standards, reporting, outcomes, accountability and teacher credentials - what's online

Organizations

• Maine Adult Education Assessment Framework: Includes Many Sites

Project Learners

• Limited English Proficient Students Assessment Project
• Multiple Intelligences and Alternative Assessments
• Portfolio Assessment
• Project Assessment
• Rubric Examples
• Rubrics for Placement and Assessment
• Rubrics for Technology Competencies
• Technology Competencies

Websites

• Needs Assessment Tools
• Standards Affecting Technology Use
• Assessment Webliography