Raising Scores
- High School Standardized Test Preparation -- Flexible, well-constructed site from Chicago Public Schools with numerous tips ALL teachers should use in coaching and encouraging students.
- Open Response Questioning Strategies
- Test Resources from About.com
- Constructed Response
- Testing 1...2...3...
- Writing To Learn -- A key site for links having to do with preparing students for writing samples required on current tests.
- Reading To Learn
- 'Sustained Silent Reading' Helps Develop Independent Readers (and Writers)
- Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring -- A cost-effective means for achieving positive results
- Reading Matters! -- All manner of reading concerns and disabilities.
- English Language Learners
- Schools of Hope -- Key features of "Best Practice" in successful schools, particularly for "at-risk" students.
- Best Practices -- Many links and aspects to current views on best practices.
- School-To-Work Transition -- An often underemphasized but powerful aspect of meeting students'needs.
- Technology and Learning
- The Small Schools Project Tools -- This and the following site show a more promising structure for raising scores and expectations, one that helps students feel cared for and known, and to act more responsibily.
- Small Schools By Choice
- Working Hand in Hand to Educate Children: Tips for Parents, Families, Teachers -- Good "division of labor" suggestions!
- Assessment Matters! Toward Authentic Assessment -- Numerous links to broaden and deepen a school's and teacher's use of assessment.
- Inclusion -- Numerous links and insights; the label "learning disabled" is a largely self-fulfilling prophecy that has compounded problems for at-risk students.
- DEPTH vs. "COVERAGE" in TEACHING and STANDARDIZED TEST PREP
- Students Against Testing (SAT!)
- MCAS Mentor: MCAS Test Help
- MCAShelp.com
- MCAS Practice Tests
- Sample Student Work and Scoring Guide
- MCAS Test Items
- Improving the MCAS: Is There Hope?
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