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ABCTE’s Prepare to Teach Workshops will not only help teaching candidates prepare for the Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam, but will also provide sound, practical advice to help teachers succeed once they are certified and in the classroom. In total, the workshops will consist of over 300 pages of content divided across ten topics, each with high-quality video case studies that demonstrate and reinforce the concepts discussed. These workshops are available online at any time so candidates can move at their own pace.

All enrolled candidates will receive complimentary access to ABCTE’s online Prepare to Teach Workshops. Access the workshops at http://www.abcte.org/courses/prepare-to-teach/index.html and login with your MyPass username and password.

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As the best-selling professional resource in its
field, this text offers basic assessment information and a handbook of
honest, even-handed reviews of the most common K–12 standardized tests.

"The success of standards-based education systems depends on two elements: strong standards, and assessments that measure what the standards expect. ... In general, [states'] individual test items are reasonably well matched to the standards they are meant to assess. But the collection of items in a test tend to measure only a few of the less challenging standards and objectives. As a result, few state tests can be said to be well-aligned assessments of challenging standards."

A graphic aid for using Bloom's taxonomy to design course activities.

Airasian presents complex concepts clearly so that pre-service teachers can understand them, and grounds these concepts in best practice through practical examples. The text focuses not only on the assessment needs of testing, grading, interpreting standardized tests, and performance assessments but also on assessment concerns in organizing a classroom at the start of school, planning and implementing instruction, and strategies of teacher self reflection.

This article emphasizes the importance of using assessment for learning rather than assessment of learning. It introduces strategies that teachers can use to gain information about their students' learning and use this information to improve instruction.

This page on TeacherVision's website features many resources organized under the categories of "The Art of Teaching," "Assessment," "Behavior Management," "Classroom Organization" and "Working with Parents."

The purpose of this text is to integrate the
areas of testing and decision making, focusing on improvement of
instruction and student learning.

Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.

ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

This online course focuses on Classroom Assessment and is a comprehensive tutorial on the subject of testing and assessment concepts. This course includes over 20 hours of course materials that will teach you the principles and terminology used in classroom assessment by referencing everyday classroom scenarios. This program was designed to help ABCTE candidates in their preparation for the Professional Teaching Knowledge exam.

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This course is accessible through www.learningfront.com.

This textbook provides an introduction to statistics. It covers describing, exploring, and comparing data, probability, probability distributions, normal probability distributions, estimates and sample sizes, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and statistical process control. Assuming only a knowledge of algebra, it builds a strong foundation of conceptual and procedural understanding of statistics.

A glossary of terms related to educational assessment practices.

Glossary of Education Terms

The New Teacher Hotline features Dr. Glen Moulton, a supervisor of instruction and lifelong teacher trainer, and Michael Kelley, the author of Rookie Teaching for Dummies. These two hosts use their knowledge and experiences to provide straight-forward and practical tips and strategies to new teachers.

You can either listen right from the web site or download the podcast from iTunes and listen on the go! And best of all, this resource is absolutely free!

This site is intended to help K-12 educators work with raw student and school data. The tutorials on this site highlight many of the Excel skills that are helpful when working with building- and district-level data.

The online and free Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others.

This article explains and defines test reliability.

The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.