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Teachers, do you...
Not have enough time for grading?
Want useful measurements on student performance?
Need a free solution to help?

You don't have to be a genius either to see that this can be used as a formative assessment tool. ;-)

Every ESL kid, every kid should be using handhelds this way! Reading aloud builds fluency, saving a record of your progress over time, Brilliant!

Great resource for reading instruction and assessment for grades PreK -12. Includes research projects, student activities, and more.

Ongoing series of blog posts with different strategies for helping your students succeed during testing season by Porter Palmer.

"The program produces professional sounding, individualized report cards in the shortest possible time. It uses a set of statements written by the teacher or downloaded from the net which can then be tailored to suit individual students needs. "

Chart of Bloom's taxonomy
Useful verbs, sample question stems, potential activities

Here are some useful rubrics for evaluating student blog components of your curriculum:

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.

It's my experience that people forget that these are a learning process and not better over worse ways to teach.