Computer-Based Testing Demo [http://www.ets.org/cbtdemo.html]
Developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as an instructional tool targeted to test-takers of ETS computer assisted test products, this demo offers general information about test center regulations, testing procedures, and scoring, a few sample test items for selected ETS tests, and, for absolute novices, a computer tutorial which covers introductory CAT test-taking skills from how to use a mouse to how to navigate through the test.

PanTesting - Performance Assessment Network - [http://www.pantesting.com/home.htm] is a web-based system for the distribution, administration, and analysis of professional assessments, tests, and surveys. pan is distinguished by both its wide range of products and its web-based e-testing process, representing a network of over 35 assessment publishers in the world.

Assessment Systems Corporation [http://www.assess.com]
This veteran commercial service has been involved in computerized assessment and measurement since the early 1970's. They offer an extensive on-line catalog of measurement related software and books. Their FastTEST Professional Testing System delivers CATs in a Windows environment.

Educational Testing Service (ETS) [http://www.ets.org]
Unlike the other testing services represented in this category, ETS did not form its identity with the advent of computer assisted testing (CAT); however, ETS performs such extensive research on CAT that its absence here would be missed.
ETS Computer Based Testing files include:

Computer Based Testing [http://www.ets.org/cbt/index.html], with links to ETS-developed standardized tests that are available on computer;

New Approaches for a New Century: The Transition from Paper and Pencil to Computer-Based Testing [http://www.ets.org/cbt/ace.htm], a series of presentations from the American Council on Education Annual Meeting, February 1997; and,

Computer-Based Testing Demo [http://www.ets.org/cbtdemo.html].

Edutest, Inc. [http://www.edutest.com/]
Edutest is an Internet-accessible testing service that offers criterion-referenced tests for elementary school students, based upon the standards for K-12 learning and achievement of the state of Virginia. Despite an impressive list of clients, Edutest could provide no technical documentation pertaining to the tests' validity and reliability to this clearinghouse upon our request.

Logic Extension Resources - LXR [http://www.lxrtest.com]
This commercial service specializes in the creation and delivery of electronic, integrated testing packages, especially appropriate for customized test construction from item banks.

Psych Screen, Inc. - Computerized Psychological Screening Reports [http://wwwpsychscreen.com/]
Specializes in clinical psychological assessment software to support the work of mental health and criminal justice practitioners. Psych Screen is not a test publisher per se; rather, it is a source for tailored combinations of various standardized tests for computerized psychological screening, especially for clinical settings.

Question Mark Computing [http://www.qmark.com]
This British commercial online test construction, delivery, and analysis service offers software and accompanying services to teachers (primary through postsecondary) and trainers for quizzes, tests, surveys, and tutorials for multiple test formats and for multiple electronic environments.

Sylvan Prometric [http://www.sylvanprometric.com/nav.htm]
This subsidiary of Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. [http://www.educate.com/] is an international commercial service that provides computer assisted testing services to organizations that administer tests for academic admissions and for professional certification and licensure.

Virtual Knowledge [http://www.virtent.com/]
This commercial service, which enjoys a formal partnership with Sylvan Learning Systems, offers a line of skills assessments for preschool through grade 9 for use in the classroom or the home.

Virtual Learning Technologies [http://vlearning.com]
This commercial service offers a family of web-based tools for skills assessments and tutorials for a wide variety of educational levels and settings, including home based testing.

See also AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING

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[http://ericae.net/code.htm] (courtesy of ERIC/AE)
[http://www.hbem.com/home/fairtest.htm] (courtesy of Harcourt Brace Educational Measurement)

Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing (CTEST) [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctest]
In its efforts to raise the general public's awareness of fairness in the application of standards and in tests' use, CTEST offers outstanding full-text documents, including a Testing and Evaluation Primer and a special presentation entitled What is a Test. CTEST also offers an excellent set of WWW links, a Bulletin Board for online discussion of current equity issues in assessment, and a "testing in the news" section entitled Spotlight Issues.

Fairness in Testing [AskERIC InfoGuide] [http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/InfoGuides/alpha_list/Fair-Test6-98.html]
A bibliography of Internet, ERIC, and other print resources pertaining to the topic from the AskERIC Virtual Library [http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/].

FairTest - National Center for Fair & Open Testing [http://www.fairtest.org/]
As part of its advocacy mission for the elimination of standardized testing abuse and the promotion of fair, valid, educationally sound testing practices, FairTest offers scholarly research that is presented in prose comprehensible to non-scholars in both electronic and print formats, technical assistance, and other public education and advocacy efforts.

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GOALS AND STANDARDS

Achieve, Inc., Resource Center on Standards, Assessment, Accountability, and Technology for Governors [http://www.achieve.org/]
As an outcome of the 1996 National Education Summit for governors and business leaders, Achieve aspires to become a national clearinghouse and source of technical assistance for states' academic benchmarking efforts. Its Achieve National Clearinghouse Database [http://www.achieve.org/achieve/html/clearinghouse/main.html] is being built to offer a searchable, browsable version of each state's academic standards.

Standards-Based Reform and Students with Disabilities [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctestweb/special/dis.html]
The Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing (CTEST) [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctest] offers an introduction, a bibliography of official documents, and links to pertinent news articles and Web sites in this portion of its Spotlight Issues [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctestweb/spotlight.html]. Interested readers may wish also to see CTEST's report entitled Testing Students with Disabilities [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctestweb/special/special.html].

Developing Educational Standards Page [http://PutnamValleySchools.org/Standards.html]
This is a very well organized index to Internet-available materials pertaining to K-12 evaluation standards and curriculum frameworks, especially those germane to Goals 2000. The organizational scheme provides access to: general resources, e.g., federally sponsored projects and centers and professional organizations which conduct research on standards; school subjects to which the standards documentation applies; and, state listings for information about each state's efforts.

Standards at McREL [http://www.mcrel.org/standards/index.html]
This is a library of full-text, online reports and report descriptions (print format) that cover definitions, design, development, and implementation of standards-based education from the Mid-continent Regional EducationLaboratory (McREL), a federally-sponsored institution with recognized expertise in this arena. Notable reports include:

Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education [http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/index.html], a browsable, searchable database of across-the-curriculum content standards. This document offers the added benefit of functioning as an index because, from the standards for a given subject-area, links have been established to pertinent Internet resources for that subject;

The Status of State Standards [http://www.mcrel.org/standards/states.html] - by Robert J. Marzano and John S. Kendall; and,

Eight Questions You Should Ask Before Implementing Standards-Based Education at the Local Level. [http://www.mcrel.org/products/eight/index.html] - by Robert J. Marzano.

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HIGHER EDUCATION

Assessment Resource Office of Eastern New Mexico University [http://www.enmu.edu/~testaa]
This site posts ENMU's outcomes assessment plans for academic and non-instructional areas and a good set of resources for classroom assessment techniques.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education - ERIC/HE [http://www.eriche.org/]
[from the ERIC/HE WWW site's self-description:] The Clearinghouse concentrates on education beyond the secondary level leading to a four-year, master's or professional degree. Excluded are counseling and student services, junior and community colleges, and the education of teachers; each of these areas has its own ERIC Clearinghouse. The range of information covered is extensive. It includes students, faculty, graduate and professional education, legal issues, financing, planning and evaluation, curriculum, teaching methods, and state-federal-institutional questions.

HEPROC (Higher Education Processes Network) [http://heproc.org]
HEPROC sponsors several discussion forums on topics related to assessment and learning theory in higher education, including Assessment of Learning, Portfolio Evaluation of Faculty, and Multiple Intelligences. The profile of the participants reflects an international community of postsecondary educators.

National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment (NCTLA) [http://www.cde.psu.edu/NCTLA/]
This Center, a consortium of six universities, focuses on internal and external performance assessment (i.e., assessment of students and institutions) at the postsecondary level. The Center offers contact information for details pertaining to its research projects and findings.

LISTSERVS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
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HOME SCHOOLING

ADVOCACY ASSOCIATIONS
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) - [http://www.hslda.org/]
HSLDA has established for itself the reputation of being the most articulate and effective lobbying and advocacy organization for its cause to Congress and to the media. The site offers legislative alerts, law summaries for each of the United States, and a conference calendar, plus more.

National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) - [http://www.nheri.org/]
NHERI demonstrates a strong mission to educating the general public about home schooling, as evidenced by its online factsheets and active lecture schedules.

Testing Services for Home Schooling Families [Directory] - [http://edresearch.org/testdir_hs.htm]
This directory, compiled by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment & Evaluation, provides sources of standardized tests for home schooling parents. Although, typically, standardized test publishers require certification for test administration, these sources have arranged for variable agreements with the publishers to relax the certification requirements for this special population.

ONLINE REPORTS
Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998 [1999] - by Lawrence M. Rudner - [http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8]
Sponsored by the Home School Legal Defense Association and published as Education Policy Analysis Archives, v.7, n.8. [See next citation for popular version of this work.]

Home Schooling Works [1999] - by Lawrence M. Rudner - [http://www.hslda.org/nationalcenter/statsandreports/rudner1999/]
This is the popular version of the above work, published by the Home School Legal Defense Association.

Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to Rudner [1999] - by Kariane Mari Welner and Kevin G. Welner - [http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n13.html]
A critique of Rudner's data analysis, published as Education Policy Analysis Archives, v.7, n.13.

ERIC DIGESTS [Topical Overviews]

Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents [1997] - by Jacque Ensign
[http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed414683.html]

Public Library Services for Home Schooling [1996] - by Denise G. Masters
[http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed402936.html]

Home Schooling [1995] - by Patricia M. Lines
[http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed381849.html]

Home Schooling and Socialization of Children [1994] - by Nola Kortner Aiex
[http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed372460.html]

A Precedent for Test Validation [1992] - by Lawrence M. Rudner & Michael P. Farris
[http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed355250.html]

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES FOR HOME SCHOOLING
What is Home Schooling? [http://eric.ed.gov/resources/parent/homesch.html] and
Homeschooling Resources for Parents and Students [http://eric.ed.gov/resources/parent/homesc2.html]
Two of the excellent topical overviews offered by AccessERIC, from its set of Parent Brochures [http://www.accesseric.org:81/resources/parent/parent.html]

Sites for Home Schooling Families - by the Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, American Library Association - [http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/parent.html#b]

Home Schooling - a long list of resources from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) - [http://www.nwrel.org/sky/Office/Main/Involving_Family/Home_Schooling.html]

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INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS EVALUATION & PROGRAM EVALUATION

American Evaluation Association (AEA) [http://www.eval.org/]
The AEA, a professional association dedicated to all aspects of evaluation in a wide range of settings, offers its Program Evaluation Standards [http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/progeval.html].

Centre for Program Evaluation, The University of Melbourne [http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cpe/cpe.html]
This site provides descriptions of the Centre's commissioned program evaluations, which pertain to education, health, welfare, and training. Bibliographic citations are provided for the staff's recent books, journal articles, evaluation reports, and conference papers.

The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/]
The Evaluation Center is a research and professional development center for evaluation in education and human services. The Evaluation Center offers such products and services as classic publications and serials for evaluation program models and processes, a Directory of Evaluators, and the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE) [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/create/].

Online Evaluation Resource Library [OERL] [http://oerl.sri.com/]
A comprehnsive site for developing sound program evaluations in education that covers evaluation plans, instruments, and reports for a variety of project types. OERL is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed by SRI Internetional.

Site-based Decision Making -- MGT of America, Inc [http://www.mgtamer.com]
This company is involved with conducting management and performance reviews (audits) of school districts either for the district itself or for some other state agency or board concerned about the district's successes or failures.

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research [http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/]
An excellent collection by Gene Shackman of resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods.

LISTSERVS FOR INSTITUTIONAL, MATERIALS AND PROGRAM EVALUATION
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INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS EVALUATION

Go to Institutional Evaluation, Instructional Materials Evaluation and Program Evaluation
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INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION

Education Indicators: An International Perspective [http://nces.ed.gov/pubs/eiip/]
This browsable, searchable compendium of the National Center for Education Statistics [http://nces.ed.gov] offers "...a wide range of indicators from a variety of sources contrasting education in the United States with other G-7 countries."

Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) [http://www.ed.gov/NCES/timss]
The TIMSS homepage offers full explanatory information for this study of half-a-million students in 41 countries.

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JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, & REPORTS

ONLINE JOURNALS & NEWSLETTERS CRESST Publications [http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index.htm]

• CRESST Newsletters [http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/pages/newsletters.htm] offer full texts of the organization's activities and policy views since Fall 1991
• CRESST Technical Reports [http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/pages/reports.htm] All CRESST technical reports and their summaries are offered by technical report number in full text format, chronological arrangement. These 70 (and growing) technical reports comprise the richest Internet-available database devoted to elementary secondary performance assessment.

Education Policy Analysis Archives [http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/]
This full-text electronic journal dates from 1993, is edited by Arizona State University Professor Gene V Glass, and is fully refereed. EPAA's scope of interest covers educational policy for elementary through higher education, with especially good representation of international perspectives; book reviews also constitute EPAA contents. Readers can browse the abstracts, procure full-text articles, and/or submit commentary and articles from this homepage.

The Evaluation Exchange [http://hugse1.harvard.edu/~hfrp/eval/]
Subtitled "Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services", this publication of the Harvard Family Research Project posts full-text articles dating from 1995. Regular sections include: "Theory & Practice" and "Promising Practices" for feature reports; "Questions & Answers" for interviews with notable evaluation experts; "Beyond Basic Training" for announcements of seminars, continuing education, and technical assistance projects; "New & Noteworthy: Valuable Resources for Evaluators"; and, "Evaluations to Watch".

Journal of Statistics in Education [http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/info/jse/]
All articles of all issues of this refereed journal on postsecondary statistics education since its inception (1993) are posted in full-text. Topics include assessment of students' attitudes towards statistics as well as students' subject knowledge.

Rasch Measurement Transactions [http://mesa.spc.uchicago.edu/rmt/index.htm]
Included are full-text, edited and updated contents of the periodical publication from 1987.

DESCRIPTIONS OF PRINT JOURNALS & NEWSLETTERS
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics [http://www.stat.ucla.edu/journals/jebs/]
A joint publication of the American Educational Research Association and the American Statistical Association. The stated goal of JEBS: "...to communicate to readers why, when, and how a statistical method should be used."

ONLINE REPORTS
Education-line [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/]
This archive of bibliographies and full-text, online reports is a joint project of the British Education Index and a consortium of British professional educational associations.

Assessment & Accountability [in Bilingual Education] [http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/library/assess.htm]
This section of the Online Library of the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) [http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/] contains recent, full-text, online reports from a variety of institutions and researchers that cover all educational levels.

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LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

Adult ESL Learner Assessment: Purposes and Tools [http://edresearch.org/edo/ED386962.HTM]
A full-text ERIC Digest, replete with bibliography.

The Center for Applied Linguistics [http://www.cal.org]
CAL offers detailed test descriptions in its Foreign Language Testing Database [http://www.cal.org/cal/DB/FLT/FLT-DIR.HTM], associated language test publications, and CAL contacts for further information.

Language Testers Guide to Cyberspace [http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ELI/cybertxt.html]
Admirably international in scope, this site identifies, organizes and describes language testing offerings of commercial organizations, professional associations, universities, archives, and online language tests. In the last group is the English Language Professional Association, an online item bank for which teachers internationally are invited to contribute.

Assessment & Accountability [in Bilingual Education] [http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/library/assess.htm]
This section of the Online Library of the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) [http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/] contains recent, full-text, online reports from a variety of institutions and researchers that cover all educational levels.

Center for Equity and Excellence in Education Test Database [http://edresearch.org/eac/]
A project of the The Region III Comprehensive Center at George Washington University's Center for Equity and Excellence in Education (CEEE) and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, the CEEE Test Database is a collection of abstracts and descriptions of almost 200 tests commonly used with Limited English Proficent students.

TOEFL Online - Test of English as a Foreign Language [http://web1.toefl.org/]
The TOEFL is one of the most widely-used measures of the English language capabilities of non-native speakers of English. This site, sponsored by the Educational Testing Service, offers TOEFL registration and schedule information and test preparation materials.

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LISTSERVS

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MATHEMATICS and SCIENCE ASSESSMENT

The Eisenhower High Plains Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education [http://www.mcrel.org/hpc/]
offers publications and other resources pertaining to reform of elementary secondary math and science education.

Project MTS - Metaevaluation, Training and Support Services [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/mts/]
Two of the purposes of this project, sponsored in part by The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/], are to 1) "Build the capacity of science educators to develop and carry through strong program evaluations", and 2) "Disseminate evaluation information and materials to science educators through instructional opportunities (conferences, institutes, and internships) and through direct sharing of ideas, materials, and resources".

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) [http://www.nwrel.org/]
From its participation in the Laboratory Network Program on Alternative Assessment (LNP-AA), along with the other nine federally funded Regional Educational Laboratories and CRESST, NWREL collects, reviews and offers instruments for alternative assessment in science and mathematics, as well as reading. Its database of alternative assessment instruments and procedures and annotated bibliographies is offered online. See especially its Assessment & Accountability Program [http://www.nwrel.org/eval/].

The Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education [http://ra.terc.edu/alliance/HubHome.html]
A project of TERC [http://www.terc.edu/], a nonprofit organization committed to the improvement of mathematics and science learning and teaching, the Regional Alliance facilitates reform for mathematics, science, and technology via its partnerships and its reform-related documentation. Readers here may especially wish to see that documentation, available at Alli ance Resources [http://ra.terc.edu/alliance/TEMPLATE/alliance_resources/alliance_resources.cfm].

Secondary Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database [http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/schools/smad/smad.html]
Over 100 assessment items, of which many are alternative assessments, are available here in WordPerfect 6.0 format for downloading. This site is sponsored by an Australian professional educators development consortium and the Australian Department of Employment, Education, and Training.

Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) [http://www.tappedin.sri.com/pals/index.html]
PALS is a resource bank of performance tasks for K-12 science education that are consonant with national science education standards and that have been gathered from such sources as the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and various states' organizations. The arrangement of the tasks are by major science content areas for grade ranges within the K-12 spectrum. The sponsor is SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning.

Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/TIMSS]- as reported by Boston College
The true TIMSS homepage offers full explanatory information for this test that was administered to one million students in 45 countries. See the next link for intial data reports from the U.S. Department of Education.

Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) [http://www.ed.gov/NCES/timss]- as reported by NCES
Thus far, the National Center for Education Statistics can report the initial findings for grade 8 U.S. students in Pursuing Excellence [http://www.ed.gov/NCES/timss/97198.html] and for comparative teaching methods in Germany, Japan and the U.S. in the TIMSS Videotape Classroom Study [http://www.ed.gov/NCES/timss/video/index.html]

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NATIONAL TESTS

Voluntary National Tests [http://edresearch.org/ft/nattest/]
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation has gathered here editorials, journal articles, and WWW sites, including the dedicated U.S. Department of Education site, that reflect both advocacy for and opposition to Voluntary National Tests.

President Clinton's National Testing Plan [http://www.fairtest.org/nattests.htm]
FairTest, or The Center for Fair and Open Testing [http://www.fairtest.org], articulates clearly its own criticisms, as well as those of other interested groups. Especially see it FairTest Fact Sheet on National Testing [http://www.fairtest.org/facts/ntfact.htm].

Voluntary National Testing [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctestweb/voluntary/vnt.html]
The Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing [http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctest] has compiled Web-based documents and Web sites pertaining to the issue as one of its current Spotlight Issues, with little to no declaration of its own position statement.

Voluntary National Tests: 4th Grade Reading & 8th Grade Mathematics [http://www.ed.gov/nationaltests/]
Here is the U.S. Department of Education's own explanations of the Voluntary National Tests, including their rationale as presented by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union address, contracts information, content frameworks, public meetings announcements, and full-text reports.

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ORGANIZATIONS

1996 National Education Summit
[http://www.summit96.ibm.com/]
Achieve, Inc., Resource Center on Standards, Assessment, Accountability, and Technology for Governors
[http://www.achieve.org/]
ACT - Information for Life's Transitions
[http://www.act.org/]
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
[http://www.aera.net/]
American Evaluation Association (AEA)
[http://www.eval.org/]
American Federation of Teachers Standards Site
[http://www.aft.org//summit1.htm]
American Psychological Association
[http://www.apa.org/]
Assessment Resource Office of Eastern New Mexico University
[http://www.enmu.edu/~testaa]
Assessment Systems Corporation
[http://www.assess.com]
Association of Test Publishers
[http://www.testpublishers.org/]
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Measurement Division
[http://www.acer.edu.au/]
Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
[http://www.unl.edu/buros]
The Center for Applied Linguistics
[http://www.cal.org]
Centre for Program Evaluation, The University of Melbourne
[http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cpe/cpe.html]
The College Board
[http://www.collegeboard.org]
The Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing (CTEST)
[http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/ctest]
Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE)
[http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/create/]
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
[http://www.ccsso.org/]
CREATE - Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation
[http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/create/]
CRESST - National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
[http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index.htm]
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
[http://www.ets.org/]
The Eisenhower High Plains Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education
[http://www.mcrel.org/hpc/]
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation (edresearch.org)
[http://edresearch.org/]
ERIC Clearinghouses
[http://www.accesseric.org:81/sites/barak.html#1]
European Test Publishers Group
[http://www.etpg.org/]
The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University
[http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/]
Joint Committee on Testing Practices
[http://www.apa.org/science/jctpweb.html]
Kaplan Online
[http://www.kaplan.com]
Logical Extension Resources - LXR
[http://www.lxrtest.com]
Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL)
[http://www.mcrel.org/]
National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)
[http://www.nagb.org]
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
[http://nces.ed.gov/NAEP/]
National Association of Test Directors (NATD)
[http://www.natd.org]
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
[http://nces.ed.gov]
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
[http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index.htm]
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
[http://www.coled.umn.edu/NCEO/]
National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
[http://ncme.org]
National Study of School Evaluation
[http://ozzy.interaccess.com/nsse/index.html]
North Central Regional Education Laboratory (NCREL)
[http://www.ncrel.org/]
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
[http://www.nwrel.org/]
The Princeton Review
[http://www.review.com/]
Question Mark Computing
[http://www.qmark.com]
R&R Research
[http://www.rrresearch.com/] - a company "Integrating Assessment and Technology"
Resampling Stats
[http://www.statistics.com]
Secondary Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database
[http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/schools/smad/smad.html]
State Education Agencies
["http://www.ed.gov/Programs/bastmp/SEA.htm"] - links courtesy of the U.S. Dept. of Ed. list -includes States and Territories
State Education Agencies
[http://www.ccsso.org/seamenu.html] - links courtesy of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).
TestPrep.com (Stanford Testing Systems, Inc.)
[http://www.testprep.com/]
U.S. Department of Education
[http://www.ed.gov/index.html]
White House Social Statistics Briefing Room
[http://www.ed.gov/index.html]

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OUTCOMES BASED EDUCATION

Outcome Based Education [http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/InfoGuides/Alphabetical_List_of_InfoGuides/outcome12_96.html] - AskERIC InfoGuide

Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment [http://www.colorado.edu/outcomes/] - of the University of Colorado at Boulder
Covers types of outcomes assessments by individual disciplines and curricular changes generated by those assessments. Also offers a good set of pointers to similar projects at the higher education level via its Internet Resources for Higher-Education Outcomes Assessment [http://www.ga.unc.edu/UNCGA/assessment/resources.html]

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PARENTS' RESOURCES

What Should Parents Know About Standardized Testing in Schools? [http://www.accesseric.org:81/resources/parent/testing.html]
One of the excellent topical overviews offered by AccessERIC, from its set of Parent Brochures [http://www.accesseric.org:81/resources/parent/parent.html]

Parent Soup Education Central: Standardized Testing [http://www.parentsoup.com/edcentral/testing/]
A useful primer which presents balanced resources by which parents can learn to conceptualize the desirable and undesirable policies and practices related to standardized testing.

What Should Parents Know About Performance Assessment? [http://www.accesseric.org:81/resources/parent/pba.html]
One of the excellent topical overviews offered by AccessERIC, from its set of Parent Brochures [http://www.accesseric.org:81/resources/parent/parent.html]

Talking to Your Child's Teacher about Standardized Tests [http://edresearch.org/edo/ED315434.HTM]
This ERIC Digest offers a checklist of questions to ask your child's teacher before test administration, as well as a checklist of questions to guide your proper responses to the test results.

Questions About Tests [http://www.testpublishers.org/question.htm]
We recommend this offering to parents and to the general public as a very good source of basic definitions, and of explanations of standards, fairness and appropriate usage of tests. This file is an offering of the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) [http://www.testpublishers.org/].

The Parent Teacher Conference – Five Must-Ask Questions [http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,1-2499,00.htm]
Parent-teacher conferences are a critical component of student evaluation. The Family Education Network offers parents, in checklist format, the questions that will help to generate productive, informative parent-teacher conferences.

Parents' Page [http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/CRESST/pages/infoparent.htm]
The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) [http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/index.htm] offers full-text articles of high current interest, as well as a selection of the best Web resources designed to help parents to understand assessment processes and to support their children's achievement.

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PEDAGOGY IN EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT

The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/]
The Evaluation Center is a research and professional development center for evaluation in education and human services. Instructors in program and personnel evaluation may benefit from Evaluation Center Publications [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/ecpub.htm] - (especially see the section entitled Instructional Aids), and Evaluation Support Services.

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) [http://ncme.org]
In addition to its three quarterly publications, NCME publishes instructional modules targeted towards evaluators and teachers that cover discrete principles and methods of evaluation design.

Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) - Census Data and Exercises for College Classes [http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/SSDAN/]
A collaborative project of University of Michigan's Population Studies Center, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, SSDAN offers products and services (with an especial emphasis upon their user-friendly nature), including customized datasets, to college instructors to facilitate the incorporation of census data analysis into undergraduate coursework.

Syllabi of Evaluation Courses - [http://edresearch.org/misc/evalsyl.htm] - courtesy of Lawrence M. Rudner, Director, edresearch.org, who makes an excellent effort to keep abreast of other professors' teaching agenda in support of his own..

LISTSERVS FOR PEDAGOGY IN EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT
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PERSONNEL EVALUATION

American Evaluation Association (AEA) [http://www.eval.org/]
The AEA, a professional association dedicated to all aspects of evaluation in a wide range of settings, offers the Personnel Evaluation Standards [http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/perseval.html]

 Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE) [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/create/]
CREATE describes itself as "..a forum for...discussion and dissemination of personnel and program evaluation research, policy, and practice in education", "an international mutual assistance network", and "a professional organization for persons engaged in educational evaluation".

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PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

The Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education [http://ericae.net/code.htm]
This code has been developed by a working group of the Joint Committee on Testing Practices, a cooperative effort of six major professional organizations that has as its aim the advancement in the public interest of the quality of testing practices. The Code is targeted to the general public and states the major obligations of professional test developers and test users regarding appropriate test development or selection, test interpretation, striving for fairness, and reporting test results.

The Personnel Evaluation Standards [http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/perseval.html]
and
The Program Evaluation Standards [http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/progeval.html]
These are authoritative sets of guidelines developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. These summaries of the Standards are made Internet-accessible by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) [http://www.eval.org/], a professional association dedicated to all aspects of evaluation in a wide range of settings.

CEC Standards for Professional Practice [http://www.cec.sped.org/ps/ps-stand.htm]
The Council for Exceptional Children [http://www.cec.sped.org/] offers it standards for practitioners in special education, of which some pertain to student evaluation and the proper employment of assessment instruments.

 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards [http://www.nbpts.org/]
One ERIC abstract about the NBPTM reads, "Now a major force in national reform efforts, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards was established in 1987 to set high, rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and practice and to certify teachers via performance-based assessments. National Board Certification, which complements state licensing, helps empower teachers through mentoring and school restructuring projects."

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PROGRAM EVALUATION

Go to Institutional Evaluation, Instructional Materials Evaluation and Program Evaluation

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Qualidata - ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre [http://www.essex.ac.uk/qualidata/]
Qualidata, a center sponsored by The Economic Social Research Council of the University of Essex, describes itself as "an action unit" which "...aims to provide a general stimulus to the practice and standards of qualitative research, especially in documenting social science research in Britain, as well as encouraging a more active interface between qualitative and quantitative research. A key objective is to improve access to qualitative data for researchers and to promote the secondary use of such data."

Qualitative Inquiry Project [http://www.nova.edu/ssss/qualinq.html]
This project is sponsored by Nova Southeastern University's School of Social & Systemic Studies (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and features an online journal, The Qualitative Report [http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html], and Qualitative Research Resources on the Internet [http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/qualres.html].

The Proposal in Qualitative Research [http://www.nova.edu/~ron/heath.html] - by Anthony W. Heath
The author, Director of Division of Behavioral Sciences in an Illinois Family Practice Residency program, offers instructions and recommendations in an outline format for the construction of a qualitative research proposal, replete with mini-bibliography.

The Ethnograph Web Site: A Program for Qualitative Research and Data Analysis [http://www.QualisResearch.com/]
Detailed description, including downloadable demonstration, of a popular software program by Qualis Research Associates for the management of qualitative data.

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REFORM EFFORTS

See also GOALS & STANDARDS

Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA) [http://www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA/]
In addition to the text of the law which re-authorized, amended, and re-named the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), this U.S. Department of Education site links to various policy reports and practical guides for affecting K-12 school reform.

The Center for Education Reform [http://www.edreform.com/]
The Center for Education Reform is a national, non-profit education advocacy group and an active broker in providing resources, support and guidance for school reform to communities across the United States. Its coverage includes school choice, charter schools, and academic standards; recommended features are its directory of organizations, its online Editorial and Analysis papers, and its calendar of events across the nation.

Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) [http://www.essentialschools.org/]
CES is a growing national network of over 1,000 schools and 24 regional support centers...that provide technical assistance and personalized support to schools. CES emphasizes professional development projects for the implementation of best teaching practices aimed at increasing student achievement.

Council for Basic Education [http://www.c-b-e.org/]
The Council for Basic Education advocates its ideals by publishing analytical periodicals and administering practical programs as examples to strengthen content in curriculum and in teaching. Coverage includes not only academic standards for K-12 education, but also teacher education reform and professional development programs.

National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) [http://www.coled.umn.edu/NCEO/]
NCEO is a collaborative project of the University of Minnesota, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education that monitors, evaluates, and advises for best practices in large-scale assessments for accountability, with a special focus on the inclusion of students with disabilities in those assessment programs. For general, systemic school reform efforts, we highly recommend NCEO's Framework for Educational Accountability [http://www.coled.umn.edu/NCEO/Framework/framework.html].

US Charter Schools [http://www.uscharterschools.org/]
As the most comprehensive online source for the topic, this site offers definitions, links to state offices replete with pertinent legislative summaries for each state, individual profiles of operating charter schools nationwide, and human and documentary sources of technical assistance, inter alia.

Ufficio studi e ricerche [http://www.ti.ch/DIC/DS/UffSR/approfondimenti/]
L'Ufficio studi e ricerche si occupa principalmente di studi e riforme scolastiche, assistenza e valutazione delle riforme, analisi della realtà scolastica, con particolare riferimento ai processi innovativi, agli aspetti pedagogico-didattici, statistici, economici e di pianificazione, e valorizzazione dei risultati di ricerca.

LISTSERVS FOR REFORM EFFORTS

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RESEARCH SUPPORT

American Educational Research Association (AERA) [http://www.aera.net/]
AERA is a professional organization comprised of scholars in all of the social sciences related to educational research. AERA offers, inter alia, its divisions and SIG's (Special Interest Groups), descriptions of its fourteen listservs, and its publications. Division D is concerned with measurement and research methodology and division H addresses school evaluation and program development. .

American Evaluation Association (AEA) [http://www.eval.org/]
The AEA describes itself thusly: We are an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.

Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE) [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/create/]
CREATE describes itself as "..a forum for...discussion and dissemination of personnel and program evaluation research, policy, and practice in education", "an international mutual assistance network", and "a professional organization for persons engaged in educational evaluation". One of CREATE's major contributions to the profession is its annual National Evaluation Institute.

Research Evaluation Documents from the Defense Technical Information Center - by Dr. Ronald N. Kostoff [http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/kostoff/index.html]
Notable documents for principles and methods include:

The Handbook of Research Impact Assessment [http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/kostoff/handweb7index.htm]
Research Program Peer Review: Principles, Practices, Protocols [http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/kostoff/Peerweb1index.html]

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research [http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/]
An excellent collection by Gene Shackman of resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on "how-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods.

The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/]
The Evaluation Center is a research and professional development center for evaluation in education and human services. The Evaluation Center offers such products and services as classic publications and serials for evaluation program models and processes, a Directory of Evaluators, and the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE) [http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/create/].

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) [http://www.assessment.iupui.edu/NCME/WNCME.html]
In addition to its three quarterly publications, NCME publishes instructional modules targeted towards evaluators and teachers that cover discrete principles and methods of evaluation design.

LISTSERVS FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH SUPPORT

Subscribe to: AERA-D - Studies educational measurement and research methodology.
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Subscribe to: EVALTEN- Topical Evaluation Network on Evaluation Methodology and Statistics.  Provides assistance for experimental design and analysis for mental health systems evaluation.
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RESOURCES FOR INTERNET SEARCHING

The Argus Clearinghouse [http://www.clearinghouse.net/index.html]
Offers an alphabetical arrangement of guides by topics, for which the "Education" section covers a broad, but not comprehensive, range of education topics.

Yahoo! Education [http://www.yahoo.com/Education]
The Yahoo! index offers one of the most elaborated Internet indices for this topic (as well as for most others). Our patrons may be particularly interested in Yahoo's Education sections on Standards and Testing [http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Standards_and_Testing/] and Statistics [http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Statistics/].

Psychology Resources on the Net [http://stange.simplenet.com/psycsite]
A public service designed to help students and professionals interested in the science of psychology to find resources on the Internet. It is intended to be a major jumping-off point for searching out psychological information. The designers have tried to focus on psychology as a science, searching out connections to topics ranging from social and health psychology to neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

Internet Workshop Links [http://ericae.net/inet_trn2.htm]
A collection of links we have found helpful in introducing people to the internet.

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SOFTWARE RESOURCES ONLINE

SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT

Software for Item Banking, Computerized and Adaptive Testing, and Test Construction [http://www.assess.com/testing.html] - by Assessment Systems Corporation (ASC) [http://www.assess.com/]

Report Cards Plus [http://www.rediker.com/modules1.html#ReportCardsPlus] - by Rediker Software, Inc. [http://www.rediker.com/]

Student Grade Reporting System [http://cucare.clever.net/solstar/grade.htm] - of the family of Solstar Software for Schools [http://cucare.clever.net/solstar/]

Rubricator [http://sltech.com/Rubric.html] - by Strategic Learning Technologies [http://sltech.com/]

InfoTracker [http://www.stardata-usa.com/info/index.html]
and
Portfolio Builder [http://www.stardata-usa.com/port/index.html]
by Stardata Inc. [http://www.stardata-usa.com/]

CyberExam [http://vlearning.com/cyberexam/index.html] - by Virtual Learning Technologies [http://vlearning.com/]

See also AUTOMATED ESSAY SCORING

SOFTWARE DIRECTORIES FOR GENERAL EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

Educational Software Institute (ESI Online) [http://www.edsoft.com]
ESI Online offers a searchable, browsable database which represents 8000 software products of over 350 publishers.

Software & Information Industry Association's Education Market Division Resources [http://www.siia.net/program/education/resources.htm]
See the section from this link that is labeled Software-Related Resources for contact information for educational software publishers/distributors and educational software reviews.

The Educational Software Selector (TESS) [http://www.interhelp.com/epie_tess.htm]
TESS is a project of The Educational Products Information Exchange, which is explicitly geared towards educators, teachers, and parents. The TESS database boasts coverage of more than 19,000 software products of over 1300 software publishers.
 

SOFTWARE VENDORS

Assessment Systems Corporation (ASC) [http://www.assess.com/]
Blackbaud [http://www.blackbaud.com/] - Choose "Products"; then choose "Educational Administration"
Chancery Software Ltd. [http://www.chancery.com/]
Cornerstone Computer Consultants [http://www.logos.edu/software/index.htm]
Digitronics Software [http://digitronics.com/]
DPConsultants, Inc. [http://www.dpc.net/software/]
Harts Systems Ltd [http://www.corp.direct.ca/info/]
Hunter Systems [http://www.huntersys.com/]
Rediker Software, Inc. [http://www.rediker.com/] - including Report Cards Plus [http://www.rediker.com/modules1.html#ReportCardsPlus]
SchoolPro Software [http://www.schoolpro.com/]
Solstar Software for Schools [http://cucare.clever.net/solstar/] - including Student Grade Reporting System [http://cucare.clever.net/solstar/grade.htm]
Strategic Learning Technologies [http://sltech.com/] - Software for Performance Based Assessment and Rubrics 
Stardata Inc. [http://www.stardata-usa.com/] - including InfoTracker [http://www.stardata-usa.com/info/index.html] & Portfolio Builder [http://www.stardata-usa.com/port/index.html]
Virtual Learning Technologies [http://vlearning.com] - including CyberExam [http://vlearning.com/cyberexam/index.html]

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STATES' INFORMATION SOURCES

ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS & PRACTICES

Testing Our Children: A Report Card on State Assessment Systems [http://www.fairtest.org/states/survey.htm]
FairTest - National Center for Fair & Open Testing [http://www.fairtest.org/] developed a five-point scoring guide by which it rates state testing programs in a range from needing "a complete overhaul" to being "a model system". FairTest employed Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems, a 1995 publication by the National Forum on Assessment, as the benchmark for its survey and report. See this report's Introduction [http://www.fairtest.org/states/intro.htm] for the composite State Data Table; otherwise, summary and full-text reports are available for each state individually.

State of the States: Quality Counts '99 [http://www.edweek.org/sreports/qc99/states/indicators/in-intro.htm]
Education Week offers the following description of its current issue of its annual series: Quality Counts '99 details the findings of an exhaustive, 50-state survey of state policies on accountability. Five indicator tables track states' programs and progress for: 1) Student Achievement 2) Standards, Assessment & Accountability 3) Teacher Quality 4) School Climate & 5) Resources.

Trends in Statewide Student Assessment Programs: A Graphical Summary [http://www.ccsso.org/survey96.html]
The Council of Chief State School Officers [http://www.ccsso.org/] and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory [http://www.ncrel.org/] conduct an annual survey to maintain their State Student Assessment Programs Database [http://www.ncrel.org/catalog/assment.htm] (description only), on which this trend analysis report is based.

GENERAL SOURCES

Standards by State [http://PutnamValleySchools.org/Standards.html#Section3]
This sub-directory of the excellent directory entitled Developing Educational Standards [http://PutnamValleySchools.org/Standards.html] is maintained by Charles Hill of the Putnam Valley School District, New York. This is a very well-organized index to Internet-available materials pertaining to K-12 evaluation standards and curriculum frameworks, especially those germane to Goals 2000.

State Education Agencies [http://www.ed.gov/Programs/bastmp/SEA.htm]
Often, individual state agencies themselves are the appropriate sources for the most current and most complete information about their respective assessment programs. This excellent directory is maintained by the U.S. Department of Education, and includes States and Territories. Alternate reliable directories are the U.S. Education Department's Educational Resources by Area [http://www.ed.gov/Programs/statelist.html] and Links to State Education Agencies [http://www.ccsso.org/seamenu.html], which is maintained by the Council of Chief State School Officers [http://www.ccsso.org/].

State Indicators in Education 1997 [http://nces.ed.gov/pubs97/97376.html]
In its description of this publication, the National Center for Education Statistics [http://nces.ed.gov/] likens it to "...a state-level version of NCES's indicator report, The Condition of Education [http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/condition98/index.html], and less like a state-level version of NCES's comprehensive data volume, the Digest of Education Statistics [http://nces.ed.gov/pubs/digest97/index.html]." The 34 indicators combine data from NCES and the U.S. Census Bureau to cover basic demographic factors, access and participation, achievement and attainment, outcomes, size and growth, classroom practices and diversity, and levels of public investment, inter alia.

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STATISTICS RESOURCES

See also DEMOGRAPHICS

Research Methods Resources from the College of Education at Arizona State University [http://research.ed.asu.edu/]
Curator John Behren's resources for datasets and teaching statistics include the excellent Statistical Instruction Internet Palette (SIIP) [http://research.ed.asu.edu/siip/].

 Interactive Statistics Page [http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html]
This index of WWW-accessible resources that perform statistical calculations includes such categories as Calculators and Specialized Calculators, Statistical Tables, Power and Sample Size Calculations, inter alia.

Resampling Stats [http://www.statistics.com]
A software developer's site that offers bibliographies, full texts, and pointers to other pertinent sites for general and resampling statistics.

Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) - Census Data and Exercises for College Classes [http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/SSDAN/]
A collaborative project of University of Michigan's Population Studies Center, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, SSDAN offers products and services (with an especial emphasis upon their user-friendly nature), including customized datasets, to college instructors to facilitate the incorporation of census data analysis into undergraduate coursework.

UCLA Statistics Homepage [http://www.stat.ucla.edu/]
This well-organized, excellent all-round resource of the University of California at Los Angeles offers full-text publications online, a statistics toolbox, and free, online statistical consulting.

STATISTICAL PACKAGES ON THE INTERNET

SAS: [http://www.sas.com]
SPSS: [http://www.spss.com]
StatLab: [http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/]
Misc Shareware & Freeware [gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu/11gopher_root_eric_ae:[_soft]]

LISTSERVS FOR STATISTICS

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TEST DESCRIPTIONS

The Test Locator [http://ericae.net/testcol.htm] of the ERIC Clearingh