What are performance assessments?

1. Higher-level
Thinking &
Performance
Assessments
Curtis Chandler, Ph.D
BetterLearningForSchools.com
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2. Effective teachers focus
on what is within their
locus of control!

3. Performance
Assessments

4. Performance Assessment

5. Performance Assessment
Extended activities
that measure
students’ ability to
integrate
knowledge and
skills across
disciplines

6. Performance Assessment
Extended activities
that measure
students’ ability to
integrate
knowledge and
skills across
disciplines
Measurement
of depth of
understanding
and complex
analysis

7. Performance Assessment
Extended activities
that measure
students’ ability to
integrate
knowledge and
skills across
disciplines
Measurement
of depth of
understanding
and complex
analysis
Better than the
old
assessments
that we used
to take

8. 7th grade

9. 8th grade

10. 2015 pilot

11. ...Work to master
performance assessment
rather than prepare for a
state assessment!

12. ...Work to master
performance assessment
rather than prepare for a
state assessment!

13. Performance Assessment

14. Performance Assessment
(Doing something)

15. Performance Assessment
Mid-to-high stakes activities!

16. Performance Assessment
Product Process Both

17. Performance Assessment
Product Process Both
Criteria and Scoring Scheme

18. Performance Assessment

19. Performance Assessment
Process

20. Performance Assessment
Process

21. Performance Assessment
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22. Performance Assessment
ProcessProduct

23. Performance Assessment
ProcessProduct Both

24. Performance Assessment
ProcessProduct Both

25. In my discipline...
ProcessProduct

26. Look at your standards
and school/team
learning objectives.

27. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

28. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

29. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

30. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

31. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

32. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

33. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

34. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

35. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

36. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

37. Identify which type of
performance task would best
fit the following standard:
Product Process

38. Look at your standards
and school/team
learning objectives.

39. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

40. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

41. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

42. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

43. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

44. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

45. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.
(Brookhart, 2014)

46. 7 steps for creating performance assessments...
1. Identify the content knowledge and skills
2. Identify the thinking skills
3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes
4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the
learning outcomes
5. Verify the performance task does not include
additional, irrelevant skills
6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include
criteria of performance levels
7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

47. Your task:
Work with no more than 2 other people to
create a nonlinguistic representation (NR)
that could be used to help other teachers
understand what performance assessments
are. Your NR must fill the chart paper. Be
sure to use pictures and words, and to
include information about the major
components/characteristics of performance
assessments.
Share a picture of your NR at
http://padlet.com/curtisc/PA