Full Description
This book features 68 performance tasks and rubrics, all designed to motivate and engage your students. Also included are samples of student work to help you apply the rubrics and develop your grading and scoring skills. The performance assessments in this book were contributed by teachers like you from all over the country and they include:
- open-ended and extended response exercises
- projects and portfolios
- behavioral assessments (skits, debates, discussions, etc.)
- authentic assessments
- and student self-assessments, in addition to those administered by teachers.
Contents
Chapter 1 Why use performance assessments?; Chapter 2 Choosing and writing a performance assessment and its rubric; Chapter 3 From theory to practice: oral assessments; Chapter 4 From theory to practice: written assignments; Chapter 5 From theory to practice: reading assessments; Chapter 6 From theory to practice: assessments of listening proficiency; Chapter 7 Strategies for keeping assessments manageable; Chapter 8 Alternative forms of assessment;