Developing Performance-Based Assessments, Grades K-5

Edited by:

Nancy P. Gallavan - University of Central Arkansas, USA

Other Titles in:
Assessment | Checklists & Frameworks | Teaching in Primary Schools

February 2009 | 232 pages | Corwin

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 assessments

- tools for assessment and guidelines for creating and using rubrics

- checklists, frequently asked questions, graphic organizers, and activities to reinforce the content in each chapter.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Examining the Many Purposes of Assessment

Demystify Performance-Based Assessments

Understand the Six Components of Assessment

Picture the Continuous Flow of Assessment

Know the Reasons for Selecting Your Assessments...

Extend With Questions and Activities

2. Planning Assessments to Promote Understanding

Use Formal and Informal Assessments

Become a Data-Driven Teacher

Understand Assessment Principles and Practices

Watch for Common Errors in Assessing

Visualize the Overall Process...

Extend With Questions and Activities

3. Collecting Baseline Data for Preassessments

Set Three Goals to Guide Your Preassessments

Question Each of the Six Components of Assessment

Keep Anecdotal Records

Follow These Guidelines as You Preassess

Realize That Assessment Is a Continuous Process...

Extend With Questions and Activities

4. Aligning Appropriate Formative Assessments

Consider the Six Components of Assessment

Design Your Curriculum

Align Assessments With Curriculum and Instruction

Explore Cognition Via Patterns of Thought

Plan With Competence and Confidence...

Extend With Questions and Activities

5. Incorporating Learning, Assigning Instruction Followed by Feedback and Correction

Assign Your Instruction and Activities

Employ Multiple Instructional Strategies

Consider These Assessment Recommendations

Include All Kinds of Questions With Your Formative Assessments

Optimize the Feedback

Involve Your Learners in the Process

Have Fun With Formative Assessments...

Extend With Questions and Activities

6. Administering Summative Assessments

Connect to the Goals and Components of Assessment

Create Your Summative Assessments

Prepare Learners for Summative Assessments

Set Your Sights on the Five As

Continue the Assessment Cycle...

Extend With Questions and Activities

7. Identifying What to Assess: Inviting the Five Types of Inquiry and Information

Introduce the Five Types of Inquiry

Balance Three Conditions With Five Types of Inquiry

Delve Into Responses

Enhance Variety in Your Inquiries

Include All Types of Thinking, Acting, and Feeling...

Extend With Questions and Activities

8. Analyzing How to Assess: Applying the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication

Analyze the Five Forms of Appraisal and Authentication

Implement Assessments Purposefully

Develop Appraisals to Showcase Learning...

Extend With Questions and Activities

9. Creating Assessment Templates and Rubrics

Construct the Assessment Template

Build Rubrics

Let Your Templates and Rubrics Do the Work for You...

Extend With Questions and Activities

10. Conducting Evaluations and Accountability

Evaluate Accomplishments

Account for Progress

Concentrate on Your Effectiveness

Develop a Performance-Based Assessment Mindset...

Extend With Questions and Activities

References and Readings

Index

“In an era where buzzwords like ‘assessment’ and ‘accountability’ are used every day in our school systems, a book like this is long overdue. The author clearly explains important terminology while providing easy-to-understand ways to engage in quality assessment in any elementary classroom.”

Jennifer Sinsel, Elementary Gifted Teacher

Bostic Traditional Magnet School, Andover, KS

"This book is very practical and useful to teachers trying to teach to all types of learners.”

Michael Putnam, Assistant Professor

Ball State University

Very practical approach to classroom assessment.

Dr Melanie Shores

Human Studies Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham

November 10, 2009

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