Performance Assessment

Performance Assessment

Start

In the "activating schema" activity you read a brief definition of performance assessments. Review each of the resources below to further develop your understanding of performance assessments and to explore how and when performance assessments should be used.

Read pg. 6-12

Watch until 9:30

Excerpt of Performance Assessment Webinar

Including Performance Assessments in an Assessment System

Implementing High Quality Performance Assessments

The full document/video is included for your refeference but please don't feel obligated to review the full resource

Performance assessment moves the measure of student learning from a focus on knowledge to a measure of the skills that a student has acquired. This assessment method is powerful but comes with both positive and negative considerations. Take some time to consider the pros and cons on the next slide. What would you add to the list?

Developing Performance Assessment

Visit each of the sites to build your familiartiy with the tools and resources available to teachers as they look to incorporate or build performance tasks.

Performance Task Banks

Performance Assessment Resource Bank

Math Performance Tasks

This site provides sample performance tasks for each grade level or course.

This site provides links to a range of state level performance tasks in multiple content areas.

This website provides a variety of resources around performance assessments.

Learning completed!