Assessment of Youth Learning
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National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Description: The mission of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours.
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Documenting Progress and Demonstrating Results: Evaluating Local Out-of-School Time Programs
Author: Little, Priscilla (6 more by this author); Sharon Deich; Sharon DuPree
Description: This brief provides practitioners of local out-of-school time programs with techniques, tools, and strategies for improving their program and tracking its effectiveness over time. 47 pages.
Description: Harvard Family Research Project's evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange, addresses current issues facing program evaluators of all levels, with articles written by the most prominent evaluators in the field. Designed as an ongoing discussion among evaluators, program practitioners, funders, and policymakers, The Evaluation Exchange highlights innovative methods and approaches to evaluation, emerging trends in evaluation practice, and practical applications of evaluation theory. It goes out to its subscribers free of charge 3–4 times per year.
The Harvard Family Research Project (Out-of-School Time Program Research and Evaluation Database)
Description: This Web site, from the Harvard Family Research Project, has compiled a database of evaluations of out-of-school programs to find out what type of program is most effective.
– General Information –
A parent's guide to Section 504 in public schools
Author: Durheim, Mary
Description: This fact sheet provides information for parents and guardians on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that prohibits discrimination based upon disability. Section 504 is an anti-discrimination, civil rights statute that requires the needs of students with disabilities to be met as adequately as the needs of the non-disabled are met in schools.
This article attempts to answer basic questions pertaining to the implementation of Section 504 in public school systems. It provides easy to understand definitions and examples of accommodations that may be provided for students. Parents rights are also explained.
Accommodations, Modifications, and Alternate Assessments: How They Affect Instruction and Assessment
Description: Children may be eligible for modifications to help them succeed in the classroom - and on standardized tests. This news brief describes accommodations and modifications that can be provided for children through an IEP or 504 plan. Sometimes an alternate assessment may be more appropriate for some children.
Short definitions are provided.
Aligning the IEP and Academic Content Standards to Improve Academic Achievement
Author: Cortiella, Candace
Description: This fact sheet provides information for parents and guardians how academic content standards can impact your child. If your child has an Individualized Education Program (IEP), it's essential that you understand how your state's "academic content standards" can be used to ensure strong academic achievement.
Given the strong linkage to state standards - both in terms of school accountability and student stakes - it seems only logical that there should be an equally strong relationship between the content of a student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) and the academic content standards for a student's enrolled grade level.
Association for Childhood Education International
Description: ACEI promotes and supports in the global community the optimal education and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and to influence the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are committed to the needs of children in a changing society.
Description: This is the website for GreatSchools, a national nonprofit whose mission is to inspire and guide parents to become effective champions of their children's education at home and in their communities.
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Skillathons for Science, Technology and Engineering 
Author: Dunham, Trudy (5 more by this author); CYFERnet TEam
Description: Skillathons are challenging, non-competitive learning-by-doing-stations that engage youth in a realistic situation and task to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. How to develop a skillathon and sample skillathons.
Author: Baumel, Jan
Description: This fact sheet provides information for parents and guardians the IEP, Individualized Education Program. The IEP is a written document that's developed for each public school child who's eligible for special education and it is created through a team effort and reviewed at least once a year.
This article attempts to answer basic questions pertaining to the implementation of an IEP in public school systems. It provides easy to understand definitions. Parents rights are also explained.
– Professional Development –
Author: Wright, Wayne
Description: Drawing on interviews with teachers, this study examines the effects of a high-stakes standardized test (the SAT-9), on a large inner-city elementary school in southern California with a high English Language Learner (ELL) student population.
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Assessment as a Tool for Learning
Author: Hearne, Jill
Description: Assessment can have positive connotations and consequences when it is used as a tool for learning. Sound assessment should be both a barometer of how well things are progressing as well as a compass indicating future direction.
Skillathons for Science, Technology and Engineering
Author: Dunham, Trudy (5 more by this author); CYFERnet TEam
Description: Skillathons are challenging, non-competitive learning-by-doing-stations that engage youth in a realistic situation and task to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. How to develop a skillathon and sample skillathons.
The Harvard Family Research Project (Out-of-School Time Program Research and Evaluation Database)
Description: This Web site, from the Harvard Family Research Project, has compiled a database of evaluations of out-of-school programs to find out what type of program is most effective.
– Research –
Assessment as a Tool for Learning
Author: Hearne, Jill
Description: Assessment can have positive connotations and consequences when it is used as a tool for learning. Sound assessment should be both a barometer of how well things are progressing as well as a compass indicating future direction.
Author: Wright, Wayne
Description: Drawing on interviews with teachers, this study examines the effects of a high-stakes standardized test (the SAT-9), on a large inner-city elementary school in southern California with a high English Language Learner (ELL) student population.
Description: The Finance Project is a non-profit policy research, technical assistance and information organization created to help improve outcomes for children, families and communities nationwide. Its mission is to support decision making that produces and sustains good results by developing and disseminating information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs, and financing strategies.
The Harvard Family Research Project (Out-of-School Time Program Research and Evaluation Database)
Description: This Web site, from the Harvard Family Research Project, has compiled a database of evaluations of out-of-school programs to find out what type of program is most effective.