RAISING SCORES, RAISING EXPECTATION



Raising Scores, Raising Expectations

Raising Scores

  1. 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.
  2. Open Response Questioning Strategies
  3. Test Resources from About.com
  4. Constructed Response
  5. Testing 1...2...3...
  6. Writing To Learn -- A key site for links having to do with preparing students for writing samples required on current tests.
  7. Reading To Learn
  8. 'Sustained Silent Reading' Helps Develop Independent Readers (and Writers)
  9. Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring -- A cost-effective means for achieving positive results
  10. Reading Matters! -- All manner of reading concerns and disabilities.
  11. English Language Learners

Raising Expectations via Standards

  1. Expectations for Students
  2. Raising Expectations to Improve Student Learning
  3. Teaching to Academic Standards
  4. Rhode Island Standards and State Frameworks
  5. Standards By Subject Matter and By State

Best Practices

  1. Schools of Hope -- Key features of "Best Practice" in successful schools, particularly for "at-risk" students.
  2. Best Practices -- Many links and aspects to current views on best practices.
  3. School-To-Work Transition -- An often underemphasized but powerful aspect of meeting students'needs.
  4. Technology and Learning

The Larger Picture

  1. 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.
  2. Small Schools By Choice
  3. Working Hand in Hand to Educate Children: Tips for Parents, Families, Teachers -- Good "division of labor" suggestions!
  4. Assessment Matters! Toward Authentic Assessment -- Numerous links to broaden and deepen a school's and teacher's use of assessment.
  5. Inclusion -- Numerous links and insights; the label "learning disabled" is a largely self-fulfilling prophecy that has compounded problems for at-risk students.
  6. DEPTH vs. "COVERAGE" in TEACHING and STANDARDIZED TEST PREP
  7. Students Against Testing (SAT!)

    Massachusetts Testing

    1. MCAS Mentor: MCAS Test Help
    2. MCAShelp.com
    3. MCAS Practice Tests
    4. Sample Student Work and Scoring Guide
    5. MCAS Test Items
    6. Improving the MCAS: Is There Hope?



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