This report describes educators' collaborative self-directed experiences in learning about and producing alternative forms of assessment for use in elementary-level classrooms. The report analyzes the Virginia Standards of Learning and local curricula in English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science/Health in grades 2-4, to provide common ground for the assessments. The assessments themselves are then presented, including checklists, portfolios, performance tasks, product assessments, projects, and simulations. Assessments in language arts cover oral communication, research and reporting skills, reading, writing, letter writing, and creative writing. Assessments in mathematics focus on problem solving, probability and statistics, data analysis, conservation, patterns, economics, money, measurement, geometry, and graphing. Social studies assessments address economics, earth care, Powhatan Indians, Tidewater region, and cooperative learning. Science/health assessments examine investigative skills and observation skills. A section titled "Voices" seasons the report with teachers' statements about learning and individual change in their professional contexts and their lives. Another section offers recommendations to enhance teacher learning and change. A resources section presents a glossary, and items for use as overhead transparencies or handouts. Appendices include a project plan, assessment item checklist, a model of the purposes of assessment, and a participant list. Contains 55 references. (JDD)