ERIC Clearinghouse
on Assessment and Evaluation
The ERIC®Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation seeks to
provide 1) balanced information concerning educational assessment and
2) resources to encourage responsible test use.
CRESST Home
PageFunded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National
Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
(CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12
educational testing.
Learning &
Instruction: The
"Theory in Practice" Database
TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more
accessible to educators. The database contains brief summarizes of 50
major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be
accessed by learning domains and concepts.
Core Knowledge Home
Page
The Core Knowledge Sequence is a consensus-based model of specific
content guidelines that, as
the basis of about 50% of a school's curriculum, can provide a solid,
coherent foundation of learning
for students in the elementary and middle grades. This site provides
lesson plans, articles and resources based on this idea.
The following chapter is reprinted with permission from the book,
Chrysalis: Multiple Intelligences Theory and the Arts by Kathleen
Gaffney , this provides a nice introduction.