Assessment & Instruction Topics


  
        

NYS Education Department
WCSD Report Cards


Other NYS Education Department links
School Year  Release Date
2007-2008  April 2009
2006-2007  Aug 2008
2005-2006  May 2007
 2004-2005  May 2006
2003-2004  March 2005
2002-2003
 March 2004
2001-2002
 April 2003
2000-2001
 March 2002
1999-2000
 No longer
 published

1998-1999
 February 2000
1997-1998
 No longer
 published
 All NYS Report Cards
NYSED - The Department's home page
EMSC - Office of Elementary, Middle, Secondary and Continuing Education
AARA - The Department's American Recovery and Reinvestment Acts web site

See also the governor's NYWORKS web site
Contracts for Excellence - Commissioner's Regulation 100.13 and Latest Information
Curriculum Guides and Learning Standards
Data Warehouse News for Regents and state assessments
Examination Schedules - Regents and state assessments
Grades 3-8 Testing - Field tests, changes in math standards, teacher info
Information and Reporting Services - Data collection/reporting (including STEP, BEDS, VADIR)
nySTART - NYS testing and Accountability reporting Tool
Office of State Assessment information (info by subject, standards, old Regents exams)
Education Technology Programs & 2009 Draft - USNY Statewide Educational Technology Plan
Part 100 Regulations - NYS educational requirements by program, grade, diploma type
Virtual Learning System - NYS standards, performance indicators, sample tasks

WCSD Assessment Documents


No Child Left Behind

Handbook of Useful Data
[2009; 900k pdf]


New York State Education Department
US Department of Education

Assessment, Education, and Technology Topics:
Selected Web Sites
  • The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement http://www.centerforcsri.org - Includes a School Reform and Improvement Database.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com
  • dataMentor http://www.datamentor.org - School level assessment information (password required)
  • Developing Educational Standards http://edstandards.org/Standards.html - Links to and brief comments about web site that present, use, or critique educational standards
  • Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org - Links to jearly 4000 online journals, many with free access. Searchable. "Education" is a subcategory of "Social Sciences."
  • Education and the Public Interest Center http://www.epicpolicy.org - Briefs, research, reviews on educational policy.
  • Education Policy Analysis Archives http://epaa.asu.edu - An online professional journal with articles about educational issues in both the US and in other countries.
  • Education Week http://www.edweek.org
  • Educause Review http://connect.educause.edu/er & Educause Quarterly http://connect.educause.edu/eq - Information technology from a collegiate perspective
  • Electric Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education http://ejite.isu.edu - A variety of journal articles about elementary/secondary technology integration
  • FairTest http://fairtest.org - The National Center for Fair and Open Testing casts a critical eye on standized testing
  • Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com - A search engine for scholarly articles
  • HyperStat Online http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat - A free, online statistics text
  • The Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment http://escholarship.bc.edu/jtla - The title of this quarterly journal tells it all.
  • Just for the Kids http://www.just4kids.org/ - Sponsored by the National Center for Educational Accountability, the site contains comparative reports on districts and schools.
  • National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing http://www.cresst.org - Reports, newsletters, policy briefs, a parents page, a teachers page from educational researchers at UCLA.
  • Phi Delta Kappan http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kappan.htm - Online version of the PDK monthly magazine. Parts of it require PDK membership.
  • Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation http://pareonline.net/Home.htm - An online professional journal containing "refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching..."
  • SchoolMatters http://SchoolMatters.com - A collaboration of the Council of Chief Sate School Officers, Standard and Poor's School Evaluation Services, the CELT Corporation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It presents ssessment information by state, district, and school.
  • Statistical Literacy http://www.statlit.org - "Statistical literacy is the ability to read and interpret statistics in everyday graphs, tables, statements and studies."
  • Usable Knowledge http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html - Created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to connect research and instructional  practice, one of its good sections is called "Decisions Through Data."
  • What Works Clearinghouse http://www.whatworks.ed.gov - The US Department of Education's view of what educational research says about different instructional terchniques



Site info: Charles Hill [chill@WappingersSchools.org] 
Updated July 1, 2009