Developing Performance-Based Assessments, Grades K-5

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ISBN: 9781412966092 | 1412966094
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Copyright: 12/19/2008

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"Use PBAs to design learning experiences that increase student engagement and achievement! "This book explains performance-based assessments (PBAs) in easy-to-understand terms and describes how to construct PBAs that measure learner performance effectively while allowing educators to align curriculum and instruction with students' needs. Using PBAs, teachers can engage students in the learning process, connect the learning to students' individual lives, and monitor learning outcomes. The author provides: Detailed and clear examples of performance-based assessmentsTools for assessment and guidelines for creating and using rubricsChecklists, frequently asked questions, graphic organizers, and activities to reinforce the content in each chapter

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Examining the Many Purposes of Assessment Demystify
Performance-Based Assessments Define Performance-Based Assessments
Involve Learning Options and Opportunities Incorporate
Teaching Principles and Practices Meet Six Components of Assessment
Know Your Learners Reflect on Your Practices Clarify Functions of Learner
Achievement Picture the Continuous Flow of Assessment
Start With Assessments and Objectives Differentiate Assessment
From Evaluation Connect With Accountability
Know the Reasons for Selecting Your Assessments?
Planning Assessments to Promote Understanding
Use Formal and Informal Assessments Reflect on Understanding Conduct
Assessments at Multiple Times Consider All Kinds of Evidence
Become a Data-Driven Teacher Balance Quantitative
With Qualitative Data Itemize Criterion-Referenced Assessments
Describe Norm-Referenced Assessments Justify Validity and Reliability
Ensure Salience and Fairness Separate
Objectivity From Subjectivity Watch Out for Errors in Assessing
Visualize the Overall Process?
Collecting Baseline Data for Preassessments
Set Three Goals to Guide Your Preassessments
Know Where to Begin the Learning Plan Where to Begin
Your Teaching Establish a Foundation to Note
Progress Question Each of the Six Components of Assessment
Gather Baseline Data Be Aware of Your Rater Reliability Generate
Preassessment Ideas Investigate the Three Spheres of Learning Keep
Anecdotal Records Follow These Guidelines as You Preassess Realize
That Assessment Is a Continuous Process?
Aligning Appropriate Formative Assessments
Consider the Six Components of Assessment Design
Your Curriculum Start With the End Organize Outcomes and Coordinate Levels
Align Assessments With Curriculum and Instruction Develop
Your Assessments Include All Kinds of Questions Pose Powerful
Questions Try Socratic Questioning Follow Strategic Guidelines
Explore Cognition via Patterns of Thought Consider Sequential and Spatial Thinking
Promote Deductive and Inductive Thinking Remember
Divergent and Convergent Thinking Plan With Competence and Confidence?
Incorporating Learning, Feedback, and Correction Assign
Your Instruction and Activities Scaffold the Learning Spiral Prior
Learning Compact Learning Logically Integrate Learning
Across the Curriculum Offer Project-Based Learning
Explore Holistic Learning Try Constructivist Learning
Employ Multiple Instructional Strategies Consider
These Assessment Recommendations Optimize the Feedback Refine
Correction and Redirection Respond to Interventions Involve
Your Learners in the Process Have Fun With Formative Assessments
Administering Summative Assessments Diversify
Your Summative Assessments Write Meaningful and Purposeful Assessments
Prepare Learners for Summative Assessments Score Assessments
Objectively Organize Projects and Presentations Feature
Portfolios Understand Standardized Testing Set Your Sights on Five Essential
Guidelines Strive for Academic Rigor Promote Active Learning and Assessments
Ensure Authentic Outcomes Include Alternative Approaches
Showcase Achievement Continue the Assessment Cycle?
Identifying What to Assess
Inviting the Five Types of Inquiry and Information Introducing the Five Types of Inquiry
Note Immediate, Continuous, and Unending Learning Rely on Recognition and Recall Promote
Logic and Reasoning Analyze Skills and Applications
Demonstrate Productivity and Creativity
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