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The State Educational Technology Directors Association are providing "The Guide to Technology Requirements," a website to assist school and district leaders to understand the detailed requirements for the online assessments being developed by all six assessment consortia.

Student and teacher feedback on online assessment 

Fourth graders had trouble using some of the basic functions on a computer-based writing assessment, including drop-down menus, editing icons, the highlighter tool, and text-to-speech, according to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics. The results, which could be seen as a foreshadowing of the types of problems students might have with computer-based common-core tests in the spring, are part of a larger federal pilot study I wrote about last week. That study found that 4th graders can use computers to type, organize, and compose well enough to be assessed on their writing.

Short article on the Common Core and assessment.

tooll that allows you to grade muliple-choice/fill in the blank assessments

"LANSING -- The Michigan Department of Education says the future of student testing is an exam produced by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. For some students across the state, however, that future has already arrived."

Sample projects, assessment tools, and tips to get started with project-based learning

"OpenEd is the largest K-12 educational resource library, offering over a million videos, games, lesson plans and assessments for every Common Core Math, Language Arts, Literacy and Next Generation Science Standard.  "