Engaging Classroom Assessments Series: Designing and Developing Performance Assessments
What are the BENEFITS of this seminar?
Participants will learn:
- Strategies for aligning instruction and assessment to standards
- How to design performance assessments and scoring guides.
Teachers need the tools to inspire student learning that results in improved achievement. Standards-based performance assessment is an effective means to improve student performance in the classroom and on high stakes standardized tests. Participants will learn why performance tasks with accompanying rubrics for assessing student proficiency are so powerful. Participants will see the compelling research that links writing across the curriculum with higher standardized test scores. In addition to designing a standards-based performance assessment ready for use in the classroom, participants will receive practical tools for effective standards implementation. This seminar is most effective when preceded by “Unwrapping” the Standards.
What are the LEARNING OBJECTIVES of this seminar?
During this interactive seminar, participants will:
- Learn how to narrow the academic content standards to the “Power Standards” and then design performance assessments to enhance student understanding of the standards.
- Develop the components of the assessment model, including interdisciplinary standards, engaging scenarios, performance tasks, and task-specific rubrics or scoring guides.
- Create the first draft of a standards-based performance assessment that includes all components of the model.
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