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)

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)

Texas (information coming soon)

FOSS (information coming soon)

Illinois (information coming soon)

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