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Measured Progress: Performance Assessment Making a Comeback in Schools [Pdf]
Understand the importance of performance assessment in your classroom. It might take more time and effort, its advocates say-but when done right, it can lead to a deeper analysis of students' skills.
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Pare: Developing Classroom Performance Assessment
Check out this informative article featuring information on recommendations for developing classroom performance assessments and scoring rubrics. Teachers will find this article extremely informative.
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University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math
Learn about performance assessment and how you can use it in your middle school mathematics classroom. Get a description of performance stations in math and how they can be used for performance assessment. Links to collections of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Waves Performance Assessment Part 2
Students will use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. Resources included are videos of the lesson in action, a student worksheet, and an...
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Classifying Candy 2 (Lesson)
For this fourth grade performance assessment task, students sort candies according to their properties and demonstrate their understanding of binary classification principles.
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Kathy Schrock: Assessment and Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock has gathered over forty rubric possibilities for assessing student work in all subject areas and grade levels. Some pages allow a teacher to create a custom rubric, as well.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 6
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade six math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 7
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade seven math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 8
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade eight math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Performance Stations in Math: Grade 9
The Saskatoon Board of Education provides teachers with this collection of grade nine math performance stations. Although several of the stations have been designed as assessment tools for the Saskatchewan curriculum, teachers may also...
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Measurement: Using the Balance (Lesson)
This performance task assesses students' ability to use a balance and to measure the mass of objects accurately.
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Up, Up and Away (Lesson)
Students will observe water evaporation in this performance task, and investigate the water cycle. The task is designed for Grade Two.
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Measurement: Length,volume,temperature
This performance task tests students' ability to measure length, volume and temperature accurately in a lab setting.
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Some of Its Parts
As they examine two variations of a can opener, learners will discuss what the purpose is of each of its sub-parts, and which of the can openers is the better machine. They will also suggest improvements to the can opener. This is a...
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Tree Study (Lesson)
For this fourth grade performance task, students measure tree leaves using metric units and make predictions about the length of other leaves on the tree. They also suggest other good questions they might ask about trees in the school...
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Observing Objects
This is a performance task for Grade Four students where they observe two different pendulums and compare the two types of motion. The activity is designed for a lab setting where students work at individual stations. A rubric and...
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Classifying Rocks
This is a performance task where students sort and classify rocks based on their properties, then demonstrate how they can transfer their understanding to decide on ways they might sort and classify other types of objects.
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Authentic Assessment Resources
You have just hit the jackpot for authentic assessment resources for professional development for teachers. Teachers will benefit from this comprehensive list of resources.
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E School News: Doing More With Less: How Informed Assessment Practices Can [Pdf]
An in-depth guide for educators about Informed Assessment Practices. These types of practices can efficiently shed light on student learning; without them, educators cannot determine the most appropriate next steps to strengthen...
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Gr. 10 Literature Mini Assessment: Excerpt From Julius Caesar, Act Iii, Scene Ii
This Language Arts assessment is based on a scene from Act III of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Students first read the accompanying text and watch a video of the scene being performed. They then answer a set of mainly multiple-choice...
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Discovering the Problem of Solid Waste
This activity has students sort garbage, graph their results and propose ways of reducing waste.
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Rising Waters
A unique approach to determining size and weight of an object through water displacement: students are presented with a scenario along with a variety of balls made of different materials and pitchers of water. Working in small groups,...
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Performance Assessment Links in Science: Mystery Card 3
Straightforward introduction to electrical circuits using minimal materials and time. Students learn about the basics of electrical circuits by experimenting with "mystery cards" -- index cards with hidden aluminum foil used to conduct...
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Pare: The Case for Authentic Assessment
What is authentic assessment? This article makes the case for authentic assessment. Come and learn more about what makes up this type of assessment.