CAESL Assessment Education Tool Kit
Welcome to the CAESL Assessment Education Tool Kit!


This handy “Tool Kit” is a web-based downloadable array of educational “tools” to help educators engage parents, community organizations, and the general public in learning about issues related to assessment, testing, and accountability.

Included as tools are:
• Interactive presentations that require as little as 15 minutes that could be presented to a large audience at a community meeting.
• In-depth activities and discussion prompts for parents who are interested in learning more, many of them with overhead transparencies and participant handouts.
• PowerPoint presentations that can provide a basic outline for presenters to expand in their own directions.
• Concise informational handouts and short articles or “briefs” on a variety of assessment-related topics that can be given to participants or sent home by schools or teachers.

In addition, there are suggestions for ways to combine some of the tools to create three sessions, on the topics of Classroom Assessment, Standards for Learning, and Standardized Testing. These sessions can each be used as stand-alone presentations, or combined to make a three-session series. This Assessment Education Tool Kit is designed to be flexible, allowing you to use any combination of what we provide and other resources to design your own programs dependent upon audience, purpose, length of time available, or other factors. While we give suggestions for possible ways to combine tools, there are many other ways they can be used together, or with other tools that you’ve developed on your own.