Testing methods that require students to create and answer or

develop a product that demonstrates knowledge or skills

Categories of Performance Based Assessments•Open-ended or constructed response items that ask students to respond in their own words to questions that may have multiple good answers. Students usually reason out their solutions as part of their answers.

Performance-based items or events: questions, tasks, or activities that require students to perform an action.

Projects or experiments: extended performance tasks that may take several days or even several weeks to complete. Students generate problems, consider options, propose solutions, and demonstrate their solutions

Portfolios: collections of student work that show teachers and others who may "score" portfolios the range and quality of student work over a period of time and in various content areas.

Performance Based

http://www.ericae.net/db/edo/ED327612.htm

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/pt3.html

http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/keis9905.htm

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed391982.html

Portfolios

~Collections of Selected Student Work

~Best Pieces

~Pieces in Progress

~Electronic Portfolios

How are Portfolios Used for Instruction?•Inform students the criteria of quality performance, so that they can apply these criteria to their own work and monitor their own progress; •Encourage students to produce products that can be shared with others, retained in a portfolio, or can be referred back to and •Keeping track of student work and creating a means for communication between students and classroom teachers.

Rubrics:

• Portfolio Rubric

• PowerPoint Rubric

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http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/teacher/portfolio.html

http://www.tcimet.net/mmclass/course/clikar01.htm

http://transition.alaska.edu/www/portfolios/planning.html

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/notes/5/portfolio.html

Portfolios