The following CSSAP products are available for purchase. Click on the links below to order online or send a check or purchase order to
Council of Chief State School Officers
Publications Office
One Massachusetts Ave., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001-1431
CSSAP Professional Development Manual on CD with PDF printing and Power Point presentations. $60. (A limited number of printed copies are available for $50.)
Contents:
- Social Studies Content Standards and the CSSAP Framework
- A Primer on Assessment
- Aligning Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Based on Content Standards
- The CSSAP Assessment Model: An Overview and Examples
- Designing Social Studies Assessment Materials
- Portfolio Assessment
- Strategies for Professional Development in Social Studies Assessment
- Social Studies Assessment References and Resources
- Appendix: The National Standards for civics, economics, geography, and history
CSSAP Portfolio Implementation Guide on CD with PDF printing, student work and rubrics. $60. (A limited number of printed copies are available for $75.)
Contents:
- Introduction to the Social Studies Portfolio
- Elementary Student Guide
- Middle School Student Guide
- High School Student Guide
- Elementary Scoring Guide
- Middle School Scoring Guide
- High School Scoring Guide
- Workshop Activities including PowerPoint Overview of the Social Studies Portfolio Process: Essential Considerations; Designing Effective Portfolio Assessment Tasks; Implementation Planning: Essential Questions for Consideration: Aligning Ideas with Portfolio Entry Categories
- The Promise of Performance Tasks in Designing Effective Portfolio Assessment Tasks: Ideas for Elementary Portfolio Assessment Tasks; Ideas for Middle School Portfolio Assessment Tasks; Ideas for High School Portfolio Assessment Tasks
- Multiple Examples of student work at grades 4, 8, and 10 in civics, economics, geography, and history
Social Studies Assessment Items (800 multiple-choice, short-answer, extended response, and performance tasks in geography, history, civics and economics). $600.00 for a release set of 800 items.
- These are multi-faceted assessment modules with selected and constructed response items as well as performance tasks.
- Items contain pilot test data.
- Searchable database.
- Construct-a-test architecture.
Releases One & Two: Available for purchase.
Release Three: Available in the fall of 2005.
Release Four: Available in the fall of 2007.
CSSAP II has on their website:
On-line instructional units that
- embed and align formative assessments to the big ideas and concepts in standards
- use scaffolding of student thinking with research-based best practice instructional strategies
- use depth of knowledge
- use backward design for the basic structure
- use technology to enhance student learning
- include transfer expectations
- embed 21st century skills in strategies and assessments
On-line access to the training resources
- Professional development training power points for differentiated instruction, universal design, scaffolding, and analyzing student work
- Manual of Professional Development
- Manual of Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom which is a compilation of best practice strategies with links to the research connected with these strategies.
Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution
- This collaboration has opened the door to enormous possibilities for assessment/curriculum development. Using the vast Smithsonian resources, the Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment Project (CSSAP) has created the newest on-line social studies units with resources that include collaboration with the staff at the Smithsonian Institution.