assessment and reporting

Ahh, progress report time. Here are a few sites for you as you think about assessment - and a few you may want to pass along to the parents you conference with this month.

From low tech to high tech, this short article outlines ways we can use technology to support assessment and facilitate reporting to parents. Techno Tools for Assessment, a quick read at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/childdev/
techno_tools.htm

This October 2004 report by the Family Research Project at Harvard outlines the benefits of homework - to parents and to teachers. Parental Involvement in Homework: A Review of Current Research and Its Implications for Teachers, After School Program Staff, and Parent Leaders at http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/
research/homework.html

How Can Something as Simple as Reading to a Child Be So Effective? A good article by Jim Trelease, the Read Aloud Handbook guy. You can access it at
http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=546 - and maybe even send it home.

Aim High! Here's Bloom's Taxonomy- at your fingertips. Click on http://nerds.unl.edu/pages/preser/sec/articles/blooms.html. Enough said.