Classroom Assessment Websites

http://placement.amatyc.org/
The Placement and Assessment Committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) maintains a website that includes assessment examples, links, and other assessment tools for Classroom, Course, and Program Assessment of the first two years of mathematics.  Particular emphasis is given to assessment resources for two-year college mathematics educators.

http://www.nctm.org/news/assessment/2003-07nb.htm
This site is hosted by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and gives information regarding the publications related to assessing student learning.

http://www.maa.org/saum/nat_meetings.html
This website, Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics, is hosted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and includes a self-paced online workshop on assessment, case studies of assessment work in two- and four-year colleges, guidelines for assessing student learning, assessment links and answers to 32 frequently asked questions about assessment.

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/flag/cat/math/math/math1.htm
This website features Mathematical Thinking Classroom Assessment Techniques.

http://www.maa.org/saum/maanotes49/94.html
Read the article by John W. Emert, “Improving Classes with Quick Assessment Techniques.”

http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed99/Martin.htm
Find descriptions of 12 classroom assessment techniques from Angelo, Cross and others.  These techniques range from the often-used “Minute Paper” to “Procedures Brochures” in which the students are asked to create a brochure that provides directions for the solution of a specified type of problem.

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/flag/cat/attinvn/attinvn7.htm
This is an attitude inventory (survey) that can “provide information on student perceptions (emotions, feeling, attitudes) of their classroom experience. For example it can reveal perceptions on:

Attitudinal surveys may also focus on students' needs in taking a course, how well those needs are met, student interest in or appreciation for the subject matter or field, student confidence in their ability to perform in a course, or their beliefs about the nature of the discipline itself.”

http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=9
This is an article by Carol Boston that gives the purpose and benefits of formative assessment.  The article also includes examples of formative assessment and a list of references.