P3 Assessments
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"A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT"
- January 1, 2014
- www.teachthought.com
- Tom Vander Ark
According to EBS...
A performance assessment is
“A test in which the test taker actually demonstrates the skills the test is intended to measure by doing real-world tasks that require those skills, rather than by answering questions asking how to do them.”
Features of a Quality Performance Assessment
Marc Chun, Hewlett Foundation
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Real-world scenario: students assume roles in real-world scenarios.
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Authentic, complex process: scenarios reflect complex and ambiguity of real-world challenges.
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Higher-order thinking: requires critical thinking, analytic reasoning, and problem solving.
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Authentic performance: the ‘product’ reflects what a professional would produce.
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Transparent evaluation criteria: the learning outcomes drive the creation of the task.
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More broadly, performance assessment is part of an approach to teaching and learning that values application over rote memorization. An ASCD publication says, “In the act of learning, people obtain content knowledge, acquire skills, and develop work habits—and practice the application of all three to ‘real world’ situations.”
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The broadest use of performance assessment is project-based learning. Schools that value Deeper Learning assign projects to students both as a learning experiences and a form of assessment.
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Engage students in authentic interdisciplinary work that is often community connected.
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Ask students to explore–and often solve–real problems faced by employers and community members.
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Ask students to produce and present professional quality work product to community audiences.
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Value employability and they track work skills as well as academic progress.
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There are many forms of performance tasks: short and long constructed response, drawings and videos, interviews. Technology enables production of quality products as well as complex engagements and simulations; it expands the number of ways that teachers can observe, share and assess student work.
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“Some innovative game-based and adaptive learning programs embed key elements of performance assessment,” said Tim Hudson, Dreambox Learning. “These programs present students with new and unfamiliar situations that require them to engage in critical thinking and strategic problem solving to accomplish challenging and meaningful goals.”
There are four reasons to use performance assessments:
Personalized Learning
Performance assessment is a critical component of creating high engagement learner-centered environment and show what you know culture. Many open ended forms of performance assessment are at least partially interest-based. Project often give students some control over themes, pacing, and the final product. Compared to didactic instruction and selected response tests, performance tasks can produce high levels of motivation and engagement.
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Formative Assessment
Short performance assessment can be incorporated into units of instruction to check for understanding. Performance tasks can be combined with other forms of assessment to guide progress through units of study. In schools operated by Michigan’s Educational Achievement Authority, each student is responsible for bringing forward three forms of evidence for each learning target, including a performance assessment.
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Competency Education
Longer and more comprehensive performance assessments can serve as a matriculation gateway in a competency-based environment. For example, end of year projects at Expeditionary Learning schools, called Passages, demonstrate a student’s preparation to advance to the next level. Senior projects are required for graduation at many high schools and in some states.
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Standards-based Education
Performance assessments are often the best way to apply knowledge and skills–particularly those difficult to measure in traditional ways such as critical thinking, collaboration, effective communications, and academic mindset.
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Portfolio systems, like eduClipper and Pathbrite, create a running record of artifacts that reflect personal bests. Portfolios are gaining post-secondary importance as an alternative market signaling device that supplements or, with a badging system, replaces traditional degrees and certificates.
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An online digital portfolio tool.
