The Authentic Assessment Toolbox offers detailed information about creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Author Jon Mueller includes detailed, practical application chapters: (1) What is it?; (2) Why do it?; (3) How do you do it?; (4) Standards; (5) Tasks; (6) Rubrics; (7) Portfolios; (8) Examples; (9) Glossary; and (10) Workshops. The author discusses rubrics, both analytic and holistic, and portfolio assessment in detail at this professional development site, and draws examples from all areas of the curriculum. (author/bcbrown)

All career-technical instructors will find this detailed information about creating authentic assessments applicable in their teaching. Instructors in the teaching pathway in the Education and Training career field or in the Human Services pathway for early childhood education and care will find this web site an excellent resource to use when teaching their career-technical students about assessment. Both teachers and their students can use the site to learn about authentic assessment and then as a guide when creating student assessments. (jrs)