Curriculum and Assessment Web Sites
Breakout Session

Curriculum & Assessment Day
January 11, 2001
Return to the IQS Links page

Facilitators:
Terri Langan & Chad Blohowiak

Session Objectives:

  1. Identify Web sites that can provide information, ideas, and strategies for designing, developing and delivering curriculum.
  2. Identify Web sites that can provide information, ideas, and strategies for assessing student learning in the classroom.
  3. Explore sites for possible use in courses you teach and share ideas you develop as part of the exploration process with others in the session.
A Smattering of Assessment & Curriculum Web Sites
Assessment

Tests, tests, tests
http://www.queendom.com/tests.html

Angelo, T.A., Ten easy pieces: Assessing higher learning in four dimensions. In Classroom research: Early lessons from success. New directions in teaching and learning (46#), Summer, 17-31
http://www.siue.edu/deder/assess/catmain.html

Classroom Assessment Techniques Menu
http://ss.uno.edu/SS/TeachDevel/Asses/AssemTechMenu.html

Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
http://ericae.net/

Library of resources (links): http://ericae.net/ftlib.htm

National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/SAI/

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Evaluation and Student Testing (CRESST)
http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index.htm

National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI)—Research
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/agenda/p5.shtml

Curriculum and Delivery

Academic Systems: Interactive English, Math
http://www.academic.com/home.asp

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
http://www.mcrel.org/

Resources page: http://www.mcrel.org/resources/

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory:
http://www.ncrel.org

"Teachers on Teaching" pages: http://www.ncrel.org/he/tot/

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
http://www.accesseric.org/

National Center on Educational Outcomes
http://www.coled.umn.edu/NCEO/

Article: Bakker, J., Fennimore T.F., Fine, C., Pierce, J. and Tinzmann, M.B., What Is The Collaborative Classroom, NCREL, Oak Brook, 1990
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/collab.htm

Article: Dinan, John S. and Schiller, Susan A., Teaching Enrichment, Vol.10, No.1, September, 1995
www.ehhs.cmich.edu/ins/dinan

New Dimensions of Learning
http://www.multi-intell.com/

Curricular Resources and Networking Projects
http://www.ed.gov/EdRes/EdCurric.html

The Global Schoolhouse
http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/

The Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org/

Adult Continuing Education sites
http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/msub073.htm

  • Click on "Free Games"
  • Click on "Interactive Experiential Training"

http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/msub020.htm

  • Click on "Learning Style Questionnaires"

http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/msublrngmats.htm
          Click on "Puzzlemaker"

Cooperative learning structures and techniques site
http://www2.emc.maricopa.edu/innovation/CCL/CCL.html
         A bit of background and some links for more information

Teaching and Learning Methods and Strategies (University of Arizona)
http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/edtech/strategy.html

        Includes a classroom management profile you can take online
        Lots of links here

Active Learning
http://www.uchsc.edu/CIS/SmGpChkList.html
        Click on any of the links for more on handling small groups

Implementing Active Learning in the Classroom
http://s.psych.uiuc.edu/~jshenker/active.html
         Short paper with lots of ideas for implementing active strategies in the classroom

Faculty Development Resources Online (University of Manitoba)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/uts/resources/teaching/learning/methods/active/
         Links to several active learning sites

The Active Learning Site
http://www.active-learning-site.com/
         Links to lots of information about using active learning in the college classroom

Collaborative Learning
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/cl1/CL/clhome.asp
     Click on "Doing CL" and navigate to various links using the navigation (left-side) panel
when the screen comes up

Active Learning Bibliography
http://www.cte.usf.edu/bibs/active_learn/contents.html
      Click on the content area you’re interested in to go to lots more links with ideas on
how to incorporate active learning strategies into your classroom

FVTC Machine Tool Resources Site
http://its.fvtc.edu/machine/Login.htm

   This site has been developed by us, and has many interactive testing example from the technical side.