Week+7


 * Week 7**

What are standardized exams? How does one interpret the meaning of the standardized test scores? (as provided by the state?) What is NCLB? What impact has it had on education? What has it done for assessment?
 * Essential Questions**


 * Standardized Testing**

media type="youtube" key="oqHV-6SiKSU" height="344" width="425" [|Other Standardized Testing Videos] Initial Questions > [|How Standardized Tests have Influenced My Life] > [|Tests: How they influenced My Life] > [|The Influences of Assessments]
 * What are some standardized exams that you have taken in the past? How do they make you feel?
 * What does your school district's testing schedule look like?

Assessment Information
 * [|NJ DOE] > [|Assessment]
 * [|NJ High School Graduation Requirements - Revised!]

Results
 * [|School Report Cards]
 * [|Assessment Data]
 * Individual Student Reports

Blog Posts
 * [|Standardized Test Results] - What do we do with them?
 * [|Use of Standardized Test Results] - Another perspective
 * [|Standardized Tests]
 * [|What should be done with Standardized Tests?]
 * [|Use of Standardized Test Results]

Reporting out to the Public
 * [|Assessment District Report] - Westwood, NJ
 * [|Understanding Testing in NJ] - Montville, NJ
 * [|Annual State of the Montvale Public Schools Assessment Report] - Montvale, NJ
 * [|District Assessment Report] - Glen Rock, NJ
 * [|NJ Assessments Cycle II Report] - Haddonfield, NJ


 * NCLB**

Initial Questions
 * What is NCLB?
 * What impact has it had on education?
 * What has it done for assessment?

Blog Post
 * [|A Perspective of NCLB]
 * [|How has NCLB and testing affected your classroom?]
 * [|NCLB]
 * [|NCLB, Standardized Testing, and Teaching to the Test]

Web Resources
 * [|US DOE NCLB]
 * [|NJ DOE NCLB]
 * [|NJ NCLB 2006 - 2007 Report Card]
 * [|NCLB Title Descriptions (NJ)]
 * [|NCLB - Title 1 and Accountability]
 * [|Revised Set of AYP Targets and Performance Standards]
 * [|Wikipedia: NCLB]

What has NCLB Done for assessment?
 * Standardized Testing and NCLB**

TBD
 * Current Events Review**

> Identify on the rubric how you would like to be assessed for 5 of the 30 points of the assignment (the other 25 points come from the first five rows). This will be submitted with the assignment on March 11th.
 * Assignments**
 * Standardized Testing Assignment - [|Rubric]
 * Current Events
 * Read through [|Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak] and reflect on using Google Doc's