Performance Assessment
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In this video, you can see an overview of Performance Assessments and some examples. Although the video was created during NTI, the approaches are helpful in other contexts as well.
This video provides an overview of rubric and assessment design as well as performance assessment.
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The New York Performance Standards Consortium is a collection of schools that left standardized testing behind over 20 years ago, and have led the nation in a better direction ever since.
In this article, Linda-Darling Hammond, Tony Wagner, and others describe several states, including Kentucky, that have policies that support Performance Assessment.
Here, Jay McTighe, a National Leader in designing Performance Task Assessments for reliability and validity, outlines the qualities of performance tasks in 7 parts.
Our friends at the Center for Collaborative Education have outlined their work around Quality Performance Assessment in this article.
Bob Lenz, the Executive Director of BIE, here discusses "overreliance on standardized tests of math and reading, which tell us little about college and career readiness, to the use of multiple measures to gauge progress in learning the full range of content and skills".
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Defined STEM is a bank of STEM performance assessments that are based on the Understanding by Design work of Wiggins and McTighe. Full access is available on a subscription basis, but a free trial is available.
Jon Mueller, at North Central College in Naperville, IL, has compiled a bank of authentic performance tasks & accompanying rubrics. Along with this bank are instructions for designing your own Performance Assessments.
The New York Performance Standards Consortium Schools have provided this discipline-specific set of rubrics to help assess performance tasks.
This searchable bank of performance tasks are sortable by subject, grade level, and type; and is populated by the Literacy and Math Design Collaboratives, among others.
This is a searchable bank of rubrics, templates, and tools for the design and evaluation of performance assessment tasks, also maintained by the Performance Assessment Resources Bank.