Text Box: How Can the Curriculum Professional Library Help Me? Text Box: Fall 2005 Volume 2 Issue 1 Text Box: LSC Staff Amber Bryant Technical Services Librarian 662-1759 Barb McClard Library Database Specialist 662-1758 Adrianne Kinzie Department Secretary 662-1760 Text Box: CKSD Library Services Center Professional Library Journal Text Box: 2006 Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice 7-10 Text Box: typical student work at various achievement levels.” Also available by the same authors—Middle Grades Assessment: Balanced Assessment for the Mathematics Curriculum The Performance Assessment Handbook v.1 & v.2 by Bil Johnson. “With examples from real classrooms, this book (Continued on page 2) Text Box: CKSD Library Services: 9210 Silverdale Way N.W., Silverdale, WA 98383 http://lsc.cksd.wednet.edu/index.htm Text Box: If you have ever wished that you had easy access to some current information on standards-based assessment and grading practices, help is a mouse click away! Turn to your district’s Curriculum Professional Library and search the catalog for current titles that are written by authorities in their field. You will find many titles such as: Elementary Grades Assessment: Balanced Assessment for the Mathematics Curriculum by the Balanced Assessment Project team (Berkeley, Harvard, Michigan State, Shell Centre). This book contains “extensively classroom-tested assessment tasks with instructions. Each task contains a description, a sample solution, suggestions for characterizing performance on the task, and several renderings of Text Box: INSIDE THIS ISSUE · Standards-based Assessment Practices · Science Models & Charts · Librarian’s Corner — Utilizing the Union Catalog to Find Materials at other Library Locations Standards-based Assessment Practices