Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Elementary School (K-5)

Teachers: Library of Congress

Taken from the original website: “The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library’s vast digital collections in their teaching.”

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students

The 2016 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students present seven characteristics and skills that students need to be active participants in society: empowered learner, digital citizen, knowledge constructor, innovative designer, computational thinker, creative communicator, and global collaborator. For each of these seven characteristics and skills, there are indicators of what students should know […]

A Review and Analysis of the Research on Native American Students

This article reviews recent research on the achievement gaps of Native American students compared to white, Latino, and black students, focusing primarily on empirically rigorous research studies. An important finding drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of kindergarten students (ECLS-K) is that “Native American children start kindergarten with lower reading skills than white, black, and […]

The Relevance of Culturally Based Curriculum and Instruction: The Case of Nancy Sharp

In this paper, the authors describe an ethnography of Ms. Sharp’s classroom. Ms. Sharp is the Yupik immersion teacher for grades K-3 in an Alaskan community almost entirely comprised of Yupik Eskimo. As part of her work with the authors, Ms. Sharp uses mathematics curriculum that was developed to combine community culture with school culture, […]

Planning Instruction to Meet the Intent of the Next Generation Science Standards

In this paper, the authors examine how to design instruction to support students in meeting a cluster or bundle of Performance Expectations (PEs) and how to blend the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to develop lesson-level PEs that can be used for guiding instruction. A detailed 10-step process is provided, along […]

Illinois Assessment Literacy Training Module

This website contains a 39-page guide, Guiding Principles for Classroom Assessment, that discusses assessment design, preparation, analysis, and quality (reliability, validity, cultural diversity, and fairness). A 4.5-minute webinar, Introduction to Balanced Assessment, gives an overview of a balanced assessment system and discusses the differences between summative and formative assessment. (Please scroll down the page to the […]