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• http://www,ode.state.oh.us/ This website contains lesson plans end assessments that are correlated to the Ohio Standards/Benchmarks/Indicators for both primary and secondary levels.

• http://www.ohiorc.org This site offers the following high quality (peer reviewed) resources; Instructional Resources, Content Resources, Professional Resources, Assessment Resources, and General EducatIonal Resources.

• http://www,nwrel,org/msec/science_inq/whatising,html Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. Resources to help clarify the meaning of standards-based science, inquiry, and what it requIres of teachers and students.

• http://pals.sri.com/ Performance Assessment Links in Science PALS is an on-line resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks, The tasks include student directions and response forms, administration procedures, scoring rubrics, examples of student work, and technical quality data calculated from field testing.

• http://www.nsta.org/maIn/news/pdf/sc9702_l2.pdf Children’s Science Journals, Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Assessing An article from NSTA’s Science and Children explores the use of science journals for effectively assessing student knowledge

http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/standards/document.shtm?input=FOC-OOl933Index Concept Maps: Finding Our Way on the Road to a Standards-Based Classroom This ENC article offers suggestions for implementation of concept maps.

• http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html Understanding Rubrics Offers the “what, why, and how” regarding rubrics.

• http://agpa.uakron.edu/k12/best_practices/ongoing_assessment.html Ongoing, Embedded, Authentic Assessment Best Teaching Practices is a University of Akron site that compiles research-based teaching practices.

• http://www.accessexceilence.org/LC/TL/mahood_port.html Suggestions on how to design and implement student portfolios as an assessment tool