Topics:

Special Projects by NEAT Partners:

• An Introduction to Program Evaluation for Classroom Teachers
  assess.html
  
  

Resources:

• Assessment and Accountability Program from the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory
  http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/
  
  
• Creating Better Student Assessments from Improving America's Schools: A Newsletter on Issues in School Reform
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/
  
  
• Critical Issues in Assessment from Pathways to School Improvement
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/as0cont.htm
  
  
• Designing Structured Interviews for Educational Research an ERIC Digest
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed421485.html
  
  
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
  http://www.ericae.net
  
  
• Even Start: Evidence from the Past and a Look to the Future is a policy report that synthesizes information from national studies & evaluations of the Even Start program. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EvenStart/highlights.html
  
  
• Herzberg's Theory of Motivation and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs an ERIC Digest on Assessment and Evaluation
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed421486.html
  
  
• The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing.
  http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index.htm
  
  
• Program Evaluation provides abstracts, highlights, and full reports from evaluation projects of the U.S. Department of Education, including a primer on evaluation.
  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/PES/
  
  
• Resources Recommended by National Research Centers from Pathways to School Improvement
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/as0top10.htm
  
  
• Statewide Assessment Programs: Policies and Practices for the Inclusion of Limited English Proficient Students an ERIC Digest
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed421484.html
  
  
• True and Quasi-Experimental Designs an ERIC Digest on Assessment and Evaluation
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed421483.html
  
  
• What Are Promising Ways to Assess Student Learning? from Improving America's Schools: A Newsletter on Issues in School Reform
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/pt3.html
  
  

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