performance assessment takeaways

Higher-level Thinking

Performance Assessment

Mid-to-high stakes activities!

Performance Assessment

Product Process Both

Criteria and Scoring Scheme

Performance Assessment

ProcessProduct Both

7 steps for creating performance assessments...

1. Identify the content knowledge and skills2. Identify the thinking skills3. Draft a task to match the learning outcomes4. Check you draft to verify that it matches the learning outcomes5. Verify the performance task does not include additional, irrelevant skills6. Revise the task and create rubrics that include criteria of performance levels7. Pilot the tasks/rubrics. Revise as necessary.

Less Structure More Structure

Less Structure More Structure

Less Structure More Structure

Less Structure More Structure

Task Feature Not Provided Guided Provided

Identify problem, pose question, or

define task.

Student poses a question, problem,

or task.

Teacher gives a selection of questions

for the students to choose from or adapt.

Teacher provides the question,

problem, or task.

Select & use strategies and/or

materials

Student selects strategies and/or

materials.

Teacher suggests strategies/materials for students to use

or adapt.

Teacher provides students strategies

and materials.

Present solution, answer,

performance, or final product.

Student decides how to present

solution, answer or final product.

Teacher suggests a method or format for presentation.

Teacher gives students directions for presentation.

Something that actually provides

insight into student’s thinking/

understanding.

What students SHOULD be doing instead of what they COULD

be doing.

Look at your standards and school/team

learning objectives.

The level of student thinking is determined (in part) by the degree of autonomy we afford our to students.

Less Structure More Structure

Less Structure More Structure

Less Structure More Structure

Less Structure More Structure

Task Feature Not Provided Guided Provided

Identify problem, pose question, or

define task.

Student poses a question, problem,

or task.

Teacher gives a selection of questions

for the students to choose from or adapt.

Teacher provides the question,

problem, or task.

Select & use strategies and/or

materials

Student selects strategies and/or

materials.

Teacher suggests strategies/materials for students to use

or adapt.

Teacher provides students strategies

and materials.

Present solution, answer,

performance, or final product.

Student decides how to present

solution, answer or final product.

Teacher suggests a method or format for presentation.

Teacher gives students directions for presentation.

(adapted from Brookhart, 2014)

Rubrics

Rating scales ChecklistScoring or feedback

guide

Rubrics

Rating scales ChecklistScoring or feedback

guide

minimize reading time for each item

avoid trick items

avoid verbatim phrasing from classroom

materials

avoid verbiage when writing items

avoid negative phrasing

include the central idea and most of the phrases in the

stem

(Haladaya, 1994, 1997)

...Work to master performance assessment

rather than prepare for a state assessment!

Constructing Open-Ended Questions

There is no such thing as an un-interrupted

path to helping students reach their learning

goals.

Higher-level Thinking &

Performance Assessments

Curtis Chandler, Ph.DBetterLearningForSchools.com

@CurtisChandler6