Assessments are available from a variety of publishers and projects,
which fall roughly into one of four categories:
- Assessment Projects: Projects that have
been developed specifically for the purpose of program evaluation.
- Commercial Publishers: Companies who
have, or can, develop custom assessments for you.
- Customized Groups: State, district, or
other programs who have developed their own assessments.
- Customized Co-ops: Collections of states,
district, or programs who have developed their own assessments.
Assessment
Projects
State
Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) provides
assessments in a variety of formats, including performance tasks,
events, open-ended and selected-response exercises, and portfolio
assessment model.
Contact: John Olson, Director, johno@ccsso.org
Samples: More Power
to You (Middle School, Physical Science)
New
Standards offers a mix of traditional test items and performance
tasks that ask students to use their knowledge to solve complex
problem
Contact: info@ncee.org
Partnership
for the Assessment of Standards-based Science (PASS) offers
multiple-choice, open-ended, Constructed response investigations,
hands-on performance tasks.
Contact: Kathy Comfort, CSIAC Director, (415) 565-3061
Video
Discovery offers laserdiscs with accompanying print material
and computer software, as well as CD-ROMs for the school and home
markets, many with Internet-based extensions. The company has published
a full range of programs in science and math that help school and
home users integrate skills by engaging them in active learning.
Contact: sales@videodiscovery.com
PASS (information coming soon)
Commercial
Publishers
Publisher #1 is the largest commercial test publisher in
the country. They have developed several well-known assessment products
and related materials.
Publisher #2 (information coming soon)
Publisher #3 (information coming soon)
Publisher #4 (information coming soon)
Customized
Groups
Texas (information coming soon)
FOSS (information coming soon)
Illinois (information coming soon)
Customized
Co-ops
(no examples available yet)
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