Building a PerformanceBased Assessment System

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Building a Performance-Based Assessment System

• High School Meeting
• January 15th-16th, 2003

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Grades reflect effort and progress as well as
good scholarship. Proficiencies indicate that
students have attained a high level of academic
achievement. The two are not necessarily the same.
--Urban Academy Handbook
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Accountability is about reporting on
Assessment is about looking at
What can we use that serves both purposes?
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Characteristics of PBA System

• Central to how school operates
• Inextricably tied to curriculum pedagogy
  ( not an afterthought)
• and to components of powerful learning
• Requires initiative self-reflection from
  students
• Provides multiple opportunities modes for
  students to demonstrate accomplishment
• Reflects a real-world orientation

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Performance-Based Assessments

• Authentic Assessments

• Performance Tasks

• Essay items

• Short-answer items

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Performance-Based Assessments

• Authentic Assessments
• Performances that are authentic to the academic
  disciplines and to life beyond school
• Authentic work is based on real work of adults
• Performances become vehicles for teaching and
  learning as well as assessing
• Is on-going multiple opportunities given for
  learning how to engage in authentic work
• Prepared accomplishments develop products
  over time for an authentic audience
• Time for reflection

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Example Process Flow to Develop a
School-widePerformance Assessment System
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Survey Results
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School-alike groups
Smalls current issues progress solutions
teaching the conversions
Conversions current issues progress
solutions West Clermont, Manual reports
CSAC getting acquainted emerging issues
evaluation explanation
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Personalization
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Personalization
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Personalization
Performance Assessment
Powerful Learning
In-depth Learning
Active Inquiry
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Performance-Based Assessments
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Job-alike groups
Teachers conversions small schools How will
my responsibilities as a teacher change? How will
my teaching practice change?
Principals What will my administrative job look
like? What can I let go of?
Grant coordinators/evaluators
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College Admissions in Washington State
Current System
Interim System
Standards and Performance-based System
Upper level courses, GPA, SAT/ACT
Performance Assessments Distinguished Advance
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Distinguished Advanced Competent
WASL
WASL
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"The credit in life goes not to the critic who
stands on the sideline and points out where the
strong stumble. The real credit in life goes to
the person actually in the arena whose face is
marred with sweat and dust, who knows great
enthusiasm and great devotions and learns to
spend himself for a worthy cause. If he wins, he
knows the thrill of great achievement, and if he
loses at least he loses while daring greatly, so
that his place in life will never be with those
cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor
defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt
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When we walk to the edge Of all the light we
have And take the step into the Darkness of the
unknown We must believe that One of two things
will happen
There will be something Solid for us to stand
on Or we will be taught to fly.   -- Patrick
Overton