A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics

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.

About the Author

v

Acknowledgments

vii

Why Use Performance Assessments?

1

(16)

What Is an Assessment?

2

(3)

Incorporating Brain Research into Assessment

5

(1)

How Do We Begin?

6

(2)

When Should We Assess?

8

(1)

Why Use a Performance Assessment?

8

(1)

How Does Learning Take Place During Performance Assessment?

9

(1)

Incorporating Modern Strategies

10

(1)

What Is a Performance Assessment?

11

(4)

What Is an Authentic Assessment?

15

(2)

Choosing And Writing A Performance Assessment And Its Rubric

17

(18)

Creating a Product Descriptor

20

(2)

Use Your Students as a Resource When Presenting the Assessment to Them

22

(1)

Include Scaffolding in Your Performance Assessment

22

(1)

Deciding on a Rubric

23

(4)

Types of Rubrics

27

(3)

What Makes a Good Rubric?

30

(2)

Don't Forget the Students

32

(1)

Piloting the Rubric

32

(1)

Summary

32

(3)

From Theory To Practice: Oral Assessments

35

(24)

Holistic Scoring

36

(1)

Analytical Rubrics

37

(3)

Teaching Students to Be Better Oral Performers

40

(1)

Convertig Points to Letter Grades

40

(1)

Types of Oral Assessments

41

(2)

Interviews

41

(2)

Grading Group Oral Behavior in Class

43

(1)

Appealing to Multiple Learning Styles

43

(1)

Examples of Oral Assessments

44

(15)

Telling Stories (TPRS)

44

(1)

Conversations

44

(1)

Telling Stories (Videotaped)

45

(2)

Oral French Exam: Short Answer

47

(1)

Oral Exams: In Pairs or Alone

48

(2)

Oral Presentation Rubric

50

(8)

Phone Message

58

(1)

From Theory To Practice: Written Assignments

59

(24)

Brainstorming

60

(1)

Rough Drafts

60

(1)

Using Feedback

61

(3)

Holistic Rubric

64

(1)

Point-Based Rubric

64

(1)

Writing Activities Samples and Rubrics

65

(18)

Journal Writing

67

(1)

Name Poems

68

(4)

If I Were

72

(3)

Personalized Essay

75

(8)

From Theory To Practice: Reading Assessments

83

(8)

Self-Assessment

84

(1)

Teacher Assessment

84

(3)

Types of Activities

87

(1)

Organizing Information That is Read

87

(2)

Scaffolding

87

(1)

Storyboard

88

(1)

Time Line

89

(1)

Creative Activities to Show Understanding of What was Read

89

(2)

From Theory to Practice: Assessments of Listening Proficiency

91

(8)

Constructing a Listening Activity

91

(1)

Using Tapes for Listening Assessments

92

(2)

Using Manipulatives for Listening Assessment

94

(1)

Using Paired Activities to Assess Listening

95

(2)

Faces

95

(1)

Maps

96

(1)

Map Activity #1

96

(1)

Map Activity #2

96

(1)

Map Activity #3

96

(1)

Battleship / Master Mind

96

(1)

Grading Listening Activities

97

(2)

Strategies for Keeping Assessments Manageable

99

(10)

Make Sure They Know What You Want

99

(1)

Assess Using a ``Cloze'' or Random Method

100

(1)

Make Editing a Part of Any Performance

100

(1)

Hold Students Responsible for Improvement

101

(1)

Give Students Choices

102

(1)

Keep Records of Assessments

103

(1)

Applying the Above Recommendations

104

(5)

Self-Taping to Increase Fluency

104

(5)

Alternative Forms of Assessment

109

(30)

K-W-L-U Sheets

109

(1)

Performance Portfolios

110

(2)

Projects

112

(4)

Giving Choices

113

(1)

Incorporating Technology

113

(3)

Assessing Behaviors

116

(2)

Assessing Individual Responsibility

116

(1)

Using Rubrics to Assess Team Responsibility

117

(1)

Self-Assessment

118

(1)

Using Mentoring in the Classroom

118

(7)

Additional Examples Provided by Foreign Language Teachers

125

(14)

Bibliography

139

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A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics

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