Guidance for Supporting Assessment Peer Review Submissions
To support technical assistance providers and state education agency staff in developing state peer review submissions, CSAI developed this document to describe and support the submission development process. This document includes suggestions for collecting, analyzing, and cataloguing documents...
RAND Education Assessment Finder
From the website: "The RAND Education Assessment Finder is a web-based tool that provides information about assessments of K–12 students' interpersonal, intrapersonal, and higher-order cognitive competencies. Practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can use it to explore what assessments are...
Check State Plans
The interactive Check State Plans website allows users to review the first 17 submitted state plans and see what education experts identify as strengths and weaknesses in each plan. The site also presents 9 important elements included in the plans (e.g., goals, standards and assessment, continuous...
PARCC Pearson Portal
This site contains the resources needed for Test Coordinators, Technology Coordinators, and Test Administrators to prepare for and administer PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics Assessments. Resources include technology setup information, manuals and training documents, sample...
Released Items
States in the PARCC consortium have released some test items from past PARCC assessments to give teachers a tool to inform and improve classroom teaching and learning. The catalog of materials that appear on this page includes scoring rubrics and guides to the scoring, as well as released item...
Engineering is Elementary: Research Instruments
Engineering is Elementary (EiE) project helps address the need for effective STEM education through three platforms: (1) curriculum development and dissemination, (2) professional development for teachers and teacher educators, and (3) educational research and evaluation. The EiE website offers...
Assessment Tools For Professional Development
Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) is a professional science organization whose members have direct accountability to the government agencies given the constitutional authority for education. Through their website, CSSS has compiled a list of evaluation tools related to professional...
Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning: Instruments
The Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning conducts research and implements best practices in the area of teaching and learning with technology. The institute's instruments and online data collection systems have been used to gather data from thousands of educators...