Outcomes and Assessment: Appropriate and Inappropriate

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Administration Addresses Concerns About Head Start Testing Plan Michelle R. Davis in Education Week
APA Testing and Assessment Monitors Head Start Issues APA
Background on Head Start National Reporting System Results
Can Head Start Pass the Test?Meisels in Education Week
Critism Mounts Education Week
Debate Continues over Head Start Test Education Week
Early Education Experts Highlight Concerns about NRS NAEYC
Faculty letter on Head Start testing ECE Faculty posted at FairTest
Head Start: Can't We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too? D Stipek in Education Week
Head Start Testing Plan Draws Fire FairTest
Head Start’s National Reporting System Fails Our Children. Here’s Why. Evelyn Moore in Education Week
Senate Democrate Committee background
The 'Failure' of Head Start John Merrow in Education Week

AERA Position Statement Concerning High-Stakes Testing in PreK-12 Education AERA
Appropriate Use of High-Stakes Testing in Our Nation's Schools APA
Assessment NCREL | Assessment terms
Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately NCREL
Contribution of documentation to the quality of early childhood education L Katz
Dangers of testing Monty Neill in Educational Leadership
Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers National Academy Press
Early Childhood Curriculum Debate ERIC
Early Childhood Summit June 2000 on Eager to Learn and Preventing Reading Difficulties
ECRP articles on project work and standards
Expanded Documentation: Strategies for communicating how and what children learn J Helm
From Neurons to Neighborhoods JP Shonkoff & DA Phillips
Head Start Child Outcome Framework
Howard Gardner's Comments on Gardner and Hirsch in the New York Times
Influential E.D. Hirsch W Feinberg in Rethinking Schools
Linking assessment and teaching in the crucial early years J Helms & G Gronlund in ASCD
NAEYC Statements (DAP, Standardized Testing, Curriculum Content & Assessment, School Readiness)
Rethinking Assessment and Its Role in Supporting Educational Reform NCREL
What Should Children Learn? Making Choices and Taking Chances Rebecca S. New

Bloom's taxonomy University of Victoria
Bloom's taxonomy Bill Huitt at Valdosta State University
Courage to be Constructivist by Martin G. Brooks & Jacqueline Grennon Brooks
Guide to Effective Programs Child Trends
New Democracy Forum: Do We Need Educational Standards? Boston Review
Selling Out Our Schools Rethinking Schools
Work sampling articles

Assessment and Evaluation NWREL
AZ Standards (Coalition for reform of high-stakes testing)
Coalition of Essential Schools
Content Knowledge MCREL Standards Database
Developing Educational Standards
Early Childhood Assessment CCSSO
Early Childhood Outcomes Center
FairTest National Center for Fair & Open Testing
Dimensions of Learning MCREL
Evaluation tools NNCC
Harvard Family Research Project
Making it Count: Measuring Program Outcomes Boston, Associated Early Care and Education
National Center on Educational Outcomes University of Minnesota
National Education Goals Panel Early Childhood Reports
National Institute on Early Education Research
NYDIC
Outcome Measurement Resources United Way
Outcomes Toolkit Health Forum
Prekindergarten Research in Progress
School Reform Models NWREL
State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network
Testing and Assessment ASBJ

A Good Beginning (Social and Emotional Competence) NIMH
Carolina Abcedarian Project Frank Porter Graham
Child Care Quality: Does it Matter and Does it Need to be Improved?
Cost, Quality, Outcomes Children go to School NCEDL
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study NCES
Entering Kindergarten from Condition of Education NCES
Head Start research Posted at ACYF (including FACES study)
Head Start research Posted at NHSA
Head Start research Posted at HHS
High/Scope Research Foundation (Perry Preschool Project)
Keeping Current in Child Care Research
Long-term Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention Reynolds University of Wisconsin
National Child Care Staffing Study Center for the Child Care Workforce
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
NICHD Early Child Care Report
NICHD study and others Posted at NCCIC
NICHD Child Care Study Results: What do they mean? Christine M. Todd, NNCC
NNCC (Extension) Variety of links
NAEYC listing of research reports
Quality Counts 2002 Ed Week

The Power of Documentation Chicago Metro AEYC Professional Learning Communities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Buros Institute of Mental Measurement
Child Behavior Checklist (T. Achenbach)
High/Scope Child Observation Record (COR)
Child Outcome Planning and Assessment California
Creative Curriculum On line | Developmental Continuum (search for assessment)
Galileo Assessment Technology
HELP for Preschoolers VORT Corporation
Looking at Student Work
Screening and Assessment for Infants and Toddlers Early Head Start
Pearson Early Learning Work Sampling, The Ounce Scale, ESI-R, and more
Work Sampling on line

ESEA Primer Education Week
Analysis of ESEA Fair Test
No Child Left

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study NCES
Teachers' views NCES
FAQ ERIC
Getting Ready.Org
School Readiness: Helping Communities Get Children Read for School & Schools Ready for Children pdf file Child Trends
Model for School Readiness Maryland
NAEYC Position Statement on School Readiness
North Carolina School Readiness
Promoting Children's Readiness to Learn NCREL
Readiness for School: A Survey of State Policies and Definitions In ECRQ
Early Childhood Reports publications from National Education Goals Panel
Ready Web (School Readiness) ERIC
School Readiness pdf file Meisels CIERA
Still! Unacceptable Trends in Kindergarten Entry and Placement (posted at NAEYC) NAECS in State Depts of Ed

California Child Care Desired Results | Prek Guidelines | Dept of Education Standards
Chicago | Instructional Intranet | Academic Standards | Structured Lesson Plans
| Virtual Pre-K | Step Ahead | CPS Reading Initiative
Charlotte-Mecklenburg North Carolina Bright Beginnings
Georgia Pre-K Program Learning Goals
Illinois | Early Learning Standards | K-12 Learning Standards | School Improvement
Massachusetts Preschool Goals
McGraw-Hill Prek Standards
Ohio Early Childhood Education
Texas Early Childhood | Kindergarten
State Curriculum Frameworks and Contents Standards US Dept of Education
British Columbia K - 3rd grade, all subjects pdf file
Early Childhood Standards pdf file SERVE

Illinois Standards for Teachers (Early Childhood, Special Education, Bilingual)
All states' teacher certification requirements University of Kentucky
New Mexico Early Childhood Education Competencies
New York Career Tools (Core Body of Knowledge)

IRA & NAEYC Learning to Read and Write
IRA & NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Early Childhood Mathematics Education
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles & Standards for School Mathematics
National Science Teachers Association Science Education Standards
MENC Early Childhood Music Education Position Statement
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students