simple k12 performance task assessment
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Performance Task Assessment is 21st Century Assessment
Jonathan E. Martinwww.21k12blog.net
Twitter: @[email protected]
Jonathan E. Martin
•10 years experience teaching High School History
•15 years experience principal, PK-12. •Currently educational writer and consultant
•www.21k12blog.net•Twitter: @JonathanEMartin
I Why Performance Task Assessment?
II What is Performance Task Assessment?
III How to Prepare Performance Task Assessments
why
“We value what we measure rather than measure what we value.”
Our students often cannot apply what they have learned to a new problem or context they haven’t seen before.
Our students need more complex and open-ended tests that demand real thinking and a deeper understanding of concepts.
Effective
communicators and
collaborators
Globally aware,
independent,
responsible…
Critical and creative thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers
“Today is the day that marks the beginning of the development of a new and much-improved generation of assessments for America’s schoolchildren. Today marks that start of Assessment 2.0”
“For the first time, many teachers will have the state assessments they have longed for—tests of critical thinking skills and complex student learning that are not just fill-in-the-bubble tests of basic skills but support good teaching in the classroom.”
September 2, 2010
what
What is a performance task? Students assume roles in a scenario that is a situated "real world" and contains the types of problems they might need to solve in the future or the present.
Often documents must be evaluated for informing answers.
The “answer” students provide are cast also in real-world formats: memos, speeches, etc.
The task requires critical thinking, analytical reasoning., problem solving and Communication skills.
“CWRA is doing truly groundbreaking work in developing assessments of the skills that matter most in the 21st century.”
The beauty of the CLA/CWRA is that it tests skills all teachers should be accountable for teaching in every class
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Smarter Balanef
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What do students think? We got a little speech before the test about how it wasn’t really a test, and we were like “yeah right ok whatever” but then we got in there and then we realized it really wasn’t a test. It was a load of fun.
We came out of the test and all the underclassmen were laughing at us because we were laughing and we were like “oh, why did you do that?” and “how did you do that?” and “that is really smart” and “I did it completely different.”
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how
Schools and Districts
1. Review, Declare, and Promulgate your learning outcomes
2. Make a plan for embedding Performance Task Assessments across your K-12 program.
3. Train teachers, especially by supporting collaborative, performance task development and design teams.
4. Explore and Exploit “Formative Assessment” Tools available and forthcoming from Smarter Balanced and PARCC.
7 steps to design your own Performance Task
1.Collaborate
2. Begin with the End in mind:
What skills: critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, writing effectiveness, etc. do you want students to
demonstrate understanding of?
Tie them to essential standards, CCSS, or district/school goals for 21st century skills.
3. Envision an age-appropriate real-world problem, issue, situation your students care
about.
Ask your students for suggestions; develop the scenario out of conversation.
Source: Virginia Beach school district
4. Develop the role your students will take, the documents your students will have to evaluate, & the “task” they will
have to complete.
(This is the most labor intensive part of task design.)
Suggestion: If you have more than one class of students, have one group prepare documents for the other– with
your fairly extensive editing/revising for your purpose. Or swap with another teacher.
Alternatively
Find Performance task assessments available online, and customize to your needs
5. Build the rubric. Do it with students and colleagues.
6 Score collaboratively.
7. Share and Iterate
