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McREL's Contributions to K-12 Standards
- Published a database of K-12 content standards, entitled Content
Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education,
(Kendall & Marzano) available online
and in print.
- Posted standards-based resources
on McREL's website where anyone who has Internet access may examine
and use the material
- Developed with Achieve, Inc.
the Achieve+McREL standards database, an on-line tool that enables content
providers to align their content--once--with the McREL
standards database and that content will be aligned automatically
and instantly with 40+ states' standards in the Achieve+McREL standards
database.
- Posted in 1999 Standards
for Career Education for Agriculture Education, Arts & Communication,
Business Education, Engineering Education, Family/Consumer Sciences,
and Health Education on McREL's website
- Helped over 150 school districts and intermediate education agencies
establish and implement standards-based education
- Developed a comprehensive standards-based vocabulary list derived
from an analysis of McREL's standards database that may be used for
instructional, organizational, and key word search purposes by teachers,
curriculum administrators, students, parents, and content providers.
- Helped the states of California, Hawaii, Florida, Kansas, Iowa, Idaho,
Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Washington with
various aspects of standards-based education (e.g., standards drafting,
reviewing, evaluating, and analyzing)
- Contracted with North Dakota to assist local teachers and staff in
the design and development of assessments tied to its statewide language
arts and mathematics standards
- Developed the standards-mapped Snapshot Assessment System for elementary
and middle school migrant, language minority, and mobile students
- Published articles in the educational press concerning standards and
assessment
- Reviewed, analyzed, revised or aligned over 300 separate standards
documents and subject matter content for various schools, school districts,
states, and private sector clients
- Published a standards handbook, entitled "A Comprehensive Guide
to Designing Standards-Based Districts, Schools, and Classrooms"
(Marzano & Kendall, 1996)
- Licensed Content
Knowledge and McREL's standards-based vocabulary list to software
publishers and online content providers, and performed standards-based
content alignment and standards database development for Internet, software
and print publishers
- Produced in 1999 a standards-based video entitled Standards in the
Classroom featuring Jane E. Pollock
- Published "Essential Knowledge: The Debate Over What American
Students Should Know" (Marzano & Kendall with Gaddy, 1999), a book
about what knowledge should be embraced by K-12 standards-based education
- Published "What Americans Believe Students Should Know: A Survey
of U.S. Adults" (Marzano, Kendall, & Cicchinelli, 1999), a survey
designed by McREL and administered by the Gallup Organization to find
out what American adults believe students should know by the time they
graduate from high school
- Developed two standards-based workshops, entitled "Implementing Standards
in the Classroom" and "Assessment, Grading, and Record Keeping" (1999)
- Published Transforming
Classroom Grading (Marzano, 2000), a book concerning grading and
record keeping in a standards-based classroom.
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