California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)
Registration bulletin, test dates, and sample test questions for the CBEST.
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC)
Credential and examination information for California teachers.
California Department of Education
Official web site for the California Department of Education.
Calisphere
This is a free public gateway to over 150,000 digitized primary sources that have been collected into sets that support the California Content Standards in History-Social Sciences, English-Language Arts, and Visual Arts for use in K-12 classrooms, from the University of California.
CBEST Practice Test
Sample CBEST tests from LearnaTest.
Curriculum & Instructional Resources
Curriculum Frameworks & Content Standards for California.
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
An excellent website that allows you to search for award-winning childrens books by: suggested age of reader, format, setting, genre, historical period, multicultural, ethnicity of protagonist, gender of protagonist, and publication year.
Ed-Data
Fiscal, demographic, and performance data for California's public K-12 school system.
EDSITEment
This website contains lesson plans in the categories of Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History & Social Studies. The website was developed through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Use the ERIC database search option only if the subscription ERIC databases from Ebsco or OCLC are not working. This version of ERIC does not have any full-text journal articles while Ebsco and OCLC do. This website also contains a calendar of education conferences, and the Thesaurus of ERIC descriptors.
Educator's Reference Desk
This site replaces AskERIC. The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice. Also available are AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
ETS TestLink
Database of educational and psychological test abstracts created by the Educational Testing Service.
International Reading Association
This site has some a variety of resources on literacy and reading. It contains highlights of past issues of 'Reading Today', and links to other other organizations involved in adult and family literacy. The site also offers details of forthcoming International Reading Association conferences, both national and international.
Learning Express Library
Practice Tests for the GED, GRE, SAT, CBEST, Praxis 1, law enforcement exams, job and career success, basic skills, and business writing.
Mental Measurement Yearbook Test Reviews Online
The Mental Measurement Yearbook contains educational, psychological, and organizational test reviews. Search for your test then look in the "Reviewed In" field to find the Mental Measurement Yearbook edition. Search the library catalog to locate copies of the Mental Measurement Yearbook that you can check out. If you can't find the edition you need in "circstacks", then fill out the library's Journal Direct form (in Services) to request the review.
Multicultural Children's Fiction Bibliography
Lists award winning and notable multicultural fiction titles available in the National University Library Juvenile and Young Adult Collections.
African American Children's Fiction
Asian Children's Fiction
Jewish Children's Fiction
Latino Children's Fiction
Middle Eastern Children's Fiction
Native American Children's Fiction
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Primary federal source for education statistics in the United States and other nations.
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
U.S. Department of Education link to Public Law print of PL 107-110, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001). PDF document is 670 pages long. Links to chapters and subsections also available.
Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA)
Registration bulletin, test dates, and sample exam materials for the RICA.
Regional CBEST Resources
This list was created by National University Library System librarians. It is a list of CBEST test information for various regions in California.