Meaningful Assessment of Student Learning in the Media Center

Book and article resources:

Assessing Information and Communication Technology, Knowledge Quest May/June 2007 issue. 

Harada, V., & Yoshina, J. (2005). Assessing Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. A related article published in 2006 is available online.

McKenzie, J. (1996). A Measure of Student Success: Assessing Information Problem Solving Skills.

McKenzie, J. (2000). The Research Gap.

Salpetre, J. (2003). 21st Century Skills: Will Our Students be Prepared?

Assessment:  A 21st Century Skills Implementation Guide (from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills)

The Next Generation of Testing (Educational Leadership, Nov. 2009)

Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project Based Learning (from Edutopia, 2011)

Web Sites:

Assessing Student Work with Project Based Learning

Authentic Assessment in School Libraries (a report from an AASL Fall Forum presented in slideshare)

Automating Authentic Assessment with Rubrics

Authentic Assessment Toolbox

(a personal favorite)

Designing Scoring Rubrics for your Classroom

Creating Rubrics

InfoLit for Middle School (listed here b/c it includes many excellent rubric samples)

Assessment Tools:

RubiStar

Rubric Machine

Teach-nology Rubric Maker

(formerly a free site, now many features require paid membership)

MidLink Magazine: Rubrics and Evaluation Resources

PBL Checklists

Kathy Schrock’s Assessment and Rubric Helpers

S.C.O.R.E Language Arts Rubrics

TRAILS: Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills

Rubrician.com

Roobrix--a tool for converting rubric scores into percentages