Developing Performance-Based Assessments, Grades 6-12

Edited by:

Nancy P. Gallavan

Other Titles in:
Assessment | Teaching in Middle Schools | Teaching in Secondary Schools

February 2009 | 240 pages | Corwin

Improve student achievement on daily assignments, unit assessments, and standardized tests!

This book clearly defines performance-based assessments (PBAs) and walks teachers and administrators through the vocabulary, concepts, and practices for conducting an assessment process that is fully integrated with the daily curriculum and can produce significantly improved student performance. The author provides a template for recording assessment data, demonstrates how to create rubrics for teacher/student use, and offers standards-based examples featuring classroom teachers' insights. Readers will discover how to use PBAs to implement:

- preassessments to collect baseline data

- formative assessments that yield progress-monitoring data

- summative assessments for culminating data that is easy-to-use.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Examining the Many Purposes of Assessment

Demystify Performance-Based Assessments

Understand the Six Components of Assessment

Picture the Continuous Flow of Assessment

Know the Reasons for Selecting Your Assessments...

Extend With Questions and Activities

2. Planning Assessments to Promote Understanding

Use Formal and Informal Assessments

Become a Data-Driven Teacher

Understand Assessment Principles and Practices

Watch for Common Errors in Assessing

Visualize the Overall Process...

Extend With Questions and Activities

3. Collecting Baseline Data for Preassessments

Set Three Goals to Guide Your Preassessments

Question Each of the Six Components of Assessment

Keep Anecdotal Records

Follow These Guidelines as You Preassess

Realize That Assessment Is a Continuous Process...

Extend With Questions and Activities

4. Aligning Appropriate Formative Assessments

Consider the Six Components of Assessment

Design Your Curriculum

Align Assessments With Curriculum and Instruction

Explore Cognition Via Patterns of Thought

Plan With Competence and Confidence...

Extend With Questions and Activities

5. Incorporating Learning, Assigning Instruction Followed by Feedback and Correction

Assign Your Instruction and Activities

Employ Multiple Instructional Strategies

Consider These Assessment Recommendations

Include All Kinds of Questions With Your Formative Assessments

Optimize the Feedback

Involve Your Learners in the Process

Have Fun With Formative Assessments...

Extend With Questions and Activities

6. Administering Summative Assessments

Connect to the Goals and Components of Assessment

Create Your Summative Assessments

Prepare Learners for Summative Assessments

Set Your Sights on the Five As

Continue the Assessment Cycle...

Extend With Questions and Activities

7. Identifying What to Assess: Inviting the Five Types of Inquiry and Information

Introduce the Five Types of Inquiry

Balance Three Conditions With Five Types of Inquiry

Delve Into Responses

Enhance Variety in Your Inquiries

Include All Types of Thinking, Acting, and Feeling...

Extend With Questions and Activities

8. Analyzing How to Assess: Applying the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication

Analyze the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication

Implement Assessments Purposefully

Develop Appraisals to Showcase Learning...

Extend With Questions and Activities

9. Creating Assessment Templates and Rubrics

Construct the Assessment Template

Build Rubrics

Let Your Templates and Rubrics Do the Work for You...

Extend With Questions and Activities

10. Conducting Evaluation and Accountability

Evaluate Accomplishments

Account for Progress

Concentrate on Your Effectiveness

Develop a Performance-Based Assessment Mind-Set...

Extend With Questions and Activities

References and Readings

Index

"Contains valuable and timely information for preservice teachers on how to develop appropriate, authentic, and worthwhile assessments."

Deborah S. Yost, Professor of Education

La Salle University

"Tools, activities, and reflective questions guide teachers in creating a nurturing environment for engaging students in relevant and meaningful learning experiences, while developing a deep understanding of self and others."

Linda D. Jungwirth, President, Convening Conversations, Inc

Pepperdine University, CA

Very practical approach to assessment for our teachers.

Dr Melanie Shores

Human Studies Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham

November 10, 2009

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