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The Internet offers a host of different assessment tools for the classroom teacher.

Generators
Use the generators below to build your own assessment items.

Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is free for those working for publicly funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the Web. Other users must pay for a license.

QuizBox
This tool allows you to build quick and easy quizzes to put on your own Web site.

QuizLab
Quiz Lab helps you create online quizzes. It's loaded with features for managing your classroom and communicating with students and parents. There is a fee for this item.

SAT Question of the Day
This site isn't a test or quiz generator, but it's a great classroom warm-up activity nonetheless.



Portfolios
Learn more about portfolios and portfolio systems.

Online Portfolios
This page can help give you ideas on how to use portfolios and how to set them up for your own classroom.

Portfolio Assessment
Find answers those frequently asked questions about portfolios.

Portfolio Forms
Use goals and evaluation portfolio forms from ABC Teach.

Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios
This site describes and discusses the use of technology to support alternative assessment from a number of perspectives.

Rubrics
Use these great rubric resources including samples and how-to instructions.

Assessment and Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock from Discovery School lists her favorite rubric and assessment sites.

ClassWeb Tools: Rubric Builder
This is an online rubric generator from the Landmark Project.

Creating a Rubric
Bernie Dodge put together this page for creating rubrics for WebQuests.

CRESST Assessment
These scoring guides were created by the Center for Research on the Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).

CRESST Rubrics
Rubrics created by the Center for Research on the Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).

"Kid Language" Writing Rubric
Rubrics written so kids can understand them.

Exemplars: Rubrics
Exemplars uses two basic types of rubric: Exemplars Assessment Rubrics used to assess student work and Student Rubrics used by students in self-assessment.

RubiStar
RubiStar is a free online tool to help teachers make quality rubrics or search for rubrics already created.

Rubrics
Sample rubrics for social studies projects.

Rubric Sampler
This document complied by Relearning by Design staff contains an overview on rubric design and provides sample holistic and analytic trait rubrics (scoring guides) for numerous subject areas. (.pdf document)

Rubrics and Evaluation Resources
MidLink Magazine resource page with downloadable Excel rubrics.

Rubrics to the Rescue
TeachersFirst discussion page by Joan Gillis for a reading rubric.

SCORE: Rubrics
Language arts rubrics based on California standards.