Tina Robison

February 19, 2002

EDAD 518

Web Search

What is Performance Assessment?

1. Designing an Effective Performance Task for the Classroom http://www.kde.state.ky.us/oapd/curric/Publications/PerformanceEvent/TOC.html

An excellent site! It gives good, understandable definitions of performance assessment, alternative assessment and authentic assessment. It also gives step by step directions on how to design your own performance assessments as well as examples of good performance assessments. This site is adaptable to all subject areas.

2. Designing Performance Assessments: Challenges for the Three-Story Intellect

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8658/

This article is an introduction to performance assessment in all content areas and it provides tips to teachers beginning to use performance assessment.

How to use Performance Assessment in the Classroom:

3. Rubrics for Web Lessons

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/rubrics/weblessons.htm

Authentic assessment

4. Education Issues Series: Performance Assessment

http://www.weac.org/resource/may96/perform.htm

This is a well-researched article that contrasts standardized testing with performance assessments. The article outlines how to develop performance assessments including portfolios, and how to use them in the classroom. Finally it lists ways to record and score data from performance assessments.

5. Portfolio Assessment

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/assess6.html

This site describes how to use portfolios in literacy: reading and writing.

6. Project based learning with multi-media

http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/topics_main.htm

A guide to help teachers plan and assess student projects.

7. “Creating Rubric Through Negotiable Contracting and Assessment” by Andi Stix, Ed.D, U.S. Department of Education

http://www.interactiveclassroom.com/articles_006.htm

This article describes how to empower students to have a role in their own assessment. The article outlines how to involve students in a contractual relationship with the teacher as they create rubrics.

How to use Performance Assessment in Language Arts:

8. Language Arts Report Card Comments

http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj1615/rep1.htm

A list of comments that show student growth or student needs in reading and writing to parents and students. Could possibly be used with students as an assessment tool or with parents on progress reports or edline.

9. English/Language Arts Performance Descriptors

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/classassess/englangarts/englang.htm

A nice site that gives several examples of performance assessments in language arts, K-12 that match the Illinois state standards.

10. Portfolios: Assessment in Language Arts

http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d66.html

Examines the use of portfolios to collect student work and to track literacy development. Students should be asked to demonstrate their knowledge and perform tasks that have a realistic focus.

11. Journals as Alternative Assessment

http://www.cbe.ab.ca/b865/assess/Journals.HTM

Shows how journals can be used as an alternative to regular assessment and how to use them in the classroom.

12. Delivering a Persuasive Speech

http://www.lessontutor.com/dppersuasive.html

An example of how to use performance assessment in a speech class.

13. Open Ended Questions in Reading

gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu/00gopher_root_eric_ae%3A%5B_alt%5D_openread.txt

This digest includes a rationale for using open-ended questions, a guide to using them in reading, and using them in the classroom.