Links

Chapter 21: Assessment and Evaluation

Balanced Assessment
http://balancedassessment.concord.org/
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/MARS/tasks/
These sites provide access to many valuable assessment tasks.

Basic Information on Formative and Summative Assessment
http://www.mmrwsjr.com/assessment.htm
A simple summary of important ideas in formative and summative assessment is available here.

Classroom Assessment
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/assess/wncp/rethinking_assess_mb.pdf
This document can be downloaded to get a good overview of assessment for learning, assessment as learning, and assessment of learning.

Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/mathed/assessment.html
This links to many other resources related to appropriate assessment in mathematics.

Portfolios
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-2/portfolio.htm
This links to information about the value of using portfolios for math assessment.

Principles of Fair Assessment
http://www.education.ualberta.ca/educ/psych/crame/files/eng_prin.pdf
This document is one of many that addresses what is required to ensure that assessment is valid, reliable and fair.

Provincial and Territorial Assessment Information
http://www.eqao.com/
http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/k_12/testing/
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/assessment/fsa/
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/assess/gr3/index.html
http://www.gnb.ca/0000/anglophone-e.asp#e
These links are just samples of links to Ministry-sponsored information about provincial testing.

TIMMS
http://www.edinformatics.com/timss/timss_intro.htm
The user can take a sample TIMMS test to get a sense of what sorts of questions are being used on international math assessments.