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Portfolios: Helping students thing about their thinking & The good and bad of standards. ASCD Education Update, Vol. 42, No. 4, June 2000
Re: Learning
Home site for Relearning by Design. Headed by Grant Wiggins and is based in Pennington, New Jersey.Resource page is rich with articles, interviews, and samples of assessments & tasks on topics of assessments, curriculum design, feedback, grading reform, portfolios, and rubrics.
http://www.relearning.org
Rogers, S., Ludington, J., & Renard, L. (2000). Learning to be flexible: When quality counts more than timeliness. ASCD Classroom Leadership, Vol. 4, No. 1, September 2000. 

Seidel, Ken, ed. Assessing Student Learning: A Practical Guide CD-ROM. Alliance for Curriculum Reform CD-ROM
Shepard, Lorrie. The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture. Educational Researcher, October 2000.
Student-Involved Classroom Assessment Additional information for users of Student-Involved Classroom Assessment, by Richard J. Stiggins.
Includes:
    • Chapter Focus: questions that outline highlights of each chapter and test their knowledge of chapter content
    • For the Instructor section: Chapter-specific Rationale for Inclusion and Suggestions for Instruction. 
    • Message Board: with discussion starters
    • Chat: communicate with students and professors nationwide
    • Syllabus Manager: create and modify online syllabus for courses
    • Instructor Resources

http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stiggins/

Understanding by Design
"The Understanding by Design Exchange is a cooperative Web site devoted to the development and peer review of curriculum units." Links to discussions, upcoming conferences, but is primarily focused on the exchange and critical examination of Backwards Design units. Requires modest registration fee.http://www.ubdexchange.org/default.html

Wisconsin Model Academic Standards
Download and view entire text for all 18 state standards
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/standards

Wolf, Bixby, Glenn III & Gardner. "To use their minds well: Investigating new forms of student assessment." Ch.2 in Grant, G., ed., Review of Research in Education, 1991.