| 2. | Achieve | | | Organization devoted to improving the rigor and clarity of the process of standard-setting and testing. Provides standard-setting and benchmarking services to states and districts.
www.achieve.org |
| 5. | CRESST Homepage | | | The federally-funded Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing conducts research on topics related to K-12 educational testing.
cresst96.cse.ucla.edu |
| 7. | ETS on the Issues | | | Essays from the maker of the SAT, GRE and other well-known standardized tests.
www.ets.org |
| 8. | National Association of Test Directors | | | An association of professionals with responsibilities for administering assessment programs in K-12 public educational settings. A selection of their research papers and newsletters are available on the site.
www.natd.org |
| 9. | Education Consumers Clearinghouse | | | Provides education's consumers access to information and opinion independent of the education community and sympathetic to the consumer's concerns and priorities.
education-consumers.com |
| 10. | The Evils of Mandatory Testing | | | As home schooling grows as a movement, there is increasing political pressure to legislate and control home schoolers.
www.lessontutor.com |
| 11. | CAHRS: Index of Working Papers | | | Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University. In particular, see papers by John Bishop on student testing and John Boudreau on personnel testing.
www.ilr.cornell.edu |
| 12. | National Education Goals Panel | | | A now defunct panel that published research and issue papers with a strong focus on standards, measurement, and measureable outcomes. The group was dissolved in 2002 but their findings and data are still available.
www.negp.gov |
| 13. | Buros Institute | | | The Buros Institute, publishers of The Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print, provides critical analyses of tests and testing instruments.
www.unl.edu |
| 19. | Public Agenda | | | Education issues site of the public opinion polling organization that has conducted several polls on standards, testing, and the public's opinion toward both.
www.publicagenda.org |
| 20. | National Assessment Governing Board | | | Made up of elected and appointed officials; oversees the content and operation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
www.nagb.org |
| 21. | ACT, Inc. | | | The organization responsible for the American College Test, required for admission to the public colleges in the majority of states; manages other tests and programs, too.
www.act.org |
| 22. | Accountability | | | Reports, essays, and links from organization generally supportive of raising standards and measuring their achievement.
www.edexcellence.net |
| 23. | Scans: Real Tests for Real Kids | | | Wired News: Canadian educational software developer Gerry Morgan may have found a way to assess qualities such as creativity, insight, and teamwork.
www.wired.com |
| 24. | ETS: Policy Information Reports | | | Several dozen research reports from the maker of the SAT, GRE and other well-known tests. Reports are authored both by ETS researchers and invited critics.
www.ets.org |
| 26. | Measuring What Matters | | | PDF format report from business/economic development group supportive of testing.
www.ced.org |
| 33. | Peter Sacks | | | Site maintained by Peter Sacks, author of books and articles about standardized testing, intelligence testing and achievement testing in education and the workplace.
petersacks.org |
| 34. | Standardized Test Scores | | | RealAudio stream of an NPR report on parents objecting to the use of standardized tests to promote or hold back students in public schools.
discover.npr.org |
| 36. | Rethinking Standardized Testing | | | Discusses the reasons that some students have chosen to boycott mandatory state standardized tests. Seattle Press.
www.seattlepress.com |
| 37. | Richard Phelps | | | Personal site of Richard Phelps which reviews over the books he has written and several other resources.
richardphelps.net |
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