Teach.com
The site contains detailed and relevant information concerning a wide range of topics that shed light on teaching: teaching degrees and careers, demands for teachers, their salaries, American education system data, the contents of work, and so on. The site also has a blog that includes various posts and articles on theoretical and practical issues. In this section, one may find the explanation of types of assessment, perspectives, and solutions of standardized assessment, progress monitoring, and other useful topics. The most popular tags that make search more comfortable and quick are listed at the bottom of the page. This Internet resource will be helpful for teachers who want to gain knowledge on types of assessment and their advantages and disadvantages.
Education Week
This site contains both objective information about teaching and personal opinions about different topics. The Assessment and Testing section provides the latest news, articles, comments, and related video. Articles often include links to other sections connected with a topic and external resources, such as government sites or YouTube videos, that may be applicable. A user will find documents in the Quality Counts section where annual reports from 1997 are available free of charge in PDF format. Education Week may be useful for teachers, parents, and everyone who is interested in education and wants to trace the latest trends in this sphere.
Performance Assessment
The website concentrates on the New York Performance Standards Consortium. This source provides an opportunity to acquire theoretical knowledge about performance assessment, its components, evaluation criteria, and alternatives to high-stakes testing as well as gives research findings, reports, and data that back the theory. A great variety of materials is among the advantages of Performance Assessment: there are several sections that comprise links to the related books, articles published by different news agencies, such as Washington Post and New York Times, and the sites that contain report archives. Parent Coalition information is also represented. This site may be equally useful to teachers and parents who would like to leverage their knowledge and understand the essence of different approaches to assessment.
Alliance for Excellent Education
The organization sets itself as the agency advocating for students and ensuring that all of them graduate from high school. In this respect, the site offers many pertinent materials: assessments, common core state standards, schools improvement, legislative issues, and other sections are present. A special emphasis is given to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): a large section focuses on ESSA history, goals, teacher preparation, recommendations on ESSA implementation, parent and community engagement, and so on. The abundance of related resources including videos is organized in a convenient manner. This website may be recommended to educators and parents, especially those of at-risk secondary school students.
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
The website contains the materials developed under the program launched by the U.S. Department of Education and concentrates on progress monitoring and using assessment data. In the resources section, the contents are represented according to several topics that discover how it is possible to exert control over students’ knowledge and deal with assessment information. One may download the files free of cost and use tool charts online. There are also links to student progress family resources, discussions, and newsletters. This site may be useful for teachers who need to broaden their knowledge of student progress by monitoring core competencies and data usage.
Works Cited
Alliance for Excellent Education. Alliance for Excellent Education, n.d. Web. 2016.
Education Week. Editorial Projects in Education, n.d. Web. 2016.
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring. U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, n.d. Web. 2016.
Performance Assessment. Performance Assessment.org, 2003. Web.
Teach.com. 2U, Inc., n.d. Web. 2016.