Over 11 million students and teachers from 191 countries are building skills and enhancing learning with ePals. Over 120,000 classroom profiles link schools together as cross-cultural learning partners and friends. Established in 1996.
The Girls, Math & Science Partnership's mission is to engage, educate, and embrace girls as architects of change. GMSP is a program of Carnegie Science Center. Requires FLASH
This is the curriculum a lot of schools use.
This site has resources and activities from educators in Pennsylvania. The activities are broken down according to grade level, subject, and learning standards. Has information on the teachers and offers membership to this site.
Authentic instruction for science. Includes various activities that incorporate the Illinois State Standards for Scientific Methods. Includes templates and goals.
Excellent and comprehensive resource for educators. Offers various rubrics and resources for specific content areas. Also includes a glossary on authentic assessment terminology and articles on the pros and cons of authentic instruction.
A site that offers various resources about authentic assessment for mathematics (Algebra, Trig, Geometry, Stats). Includes multiple activities, lesson plans, and rubrics in print friendly form. Includes a special rubrics page from CPS.
Suggestions for allowing students to develop their own rubrics and expectations. Allows students to focus on their strengths and weaknesses and writing up contracts with the teacher. Authentic Instruction, Assessment and Rubrics for Specific Content Areas
Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name.
This site offers eight steps on how to prepare authentic assessments. Each step is broken into detailed instructions including templates and samples for the assessments.
An excellent resource for teachers and educators. It gives methods for how to prepare authentic and alternative assessments. Offers encouragement and realistic outcomes and expectations.
Offers five standards of authentic instruction. Advocates higher-level learning and provides rubrics for the instructors to measure their own effectiveness in these five areas.
A more scholarly explanation and history of authentic instruction. Includes the anatomy of a model case for a science activity and includes what is happening during the learning process and how educators and students can practice authentic learning. Lists additional references.
Full text articles on educational assessment, evaluation and research methodology.