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Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. One usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes.

** Visit this site to help you develop an assessment rubric for your culminating assessment task.

This website provides web based resources for teachers about Assessment for Learning theory and practice. It has 32 assessment tasks across the curriculum.

This site will help you with stage 2 of the recommended planning template.

This site adapts Blooms Taxomony to the use of digital technologies to enhance student learning outcomes. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy isn't about the tools or technologies rather it is about using these to facilitate learning. Outcomes on rubrics are measured by competence of use and most importantly the quality of the process or product.

This site would be valuable to help you design your culminating assessment task and learning activities using ICT.

Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who, in 1956, developed a method of classifying cognitive thinking into different levels, each building on the previous level, from the most simple to the most abstract. Cognitive learning includes knowledge recall, comprehending information, organizing ideas, analyzing and synthesizing data, applying knowledge, choosing among alternatives in problem-solving, and evaluating ideas or actions. These skills are targeted in education.

Visit this site to help you develop a culminating assessment task that develops students' higher order thinking skills.

A site by Harvard Graduate School of Education that contains answers to frequently asked questions about Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences.

Visit this site to consider catering for the needs of all students in your assessment task and learning activities sequence of your integrate unit plan.