Alternative Assessment

CIESE Model - Areas of professional Development
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/clime/k12/Areas.html

Assessment to inform Instruction
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/clime/k12/quote.html

Math & Science Center - Publications
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/pub.html

"Assessment Strategies to Inform Science and Mathematics Instruction: It's Just Good Teaching" stresses the key role that ongoing classroom assessments play in effective teaching. The publication gives an overview of the reasoning behind assessment to inform instruction and outlines a variety of strategies, including interviews, observations, writing activities, and student self-assessment. A detailed list of resources-including print materials, online sources, and organizations-is also provided for additional information.
June 1997. 34 pages. (PDF Format.)

Northwest Regional Educational Lab - Math & Science Center
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/index.html

Performance Assessment
http://www.exit109.com/~learn/perfases.htm

Global Temperature Project
http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/tempproj

Cities Around the World Database
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/clime/k12/cities.html

The Four Season's Homepage
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/clime/k12/fourseas.html

All about Rubrics
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/july/rubrics/Rubrics_for_Web_Lessons.html

Why Rubrics?
http://www.servtech.com/~germaine/rubric.html

Activity - Exploring Longitude and Latitude
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/LatLong/LatLongIntro.html