1. Performance Assessment: An Introduction & Overview Fresno, CA June 24, 2015, Daisy Martin, PhD Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, & Equity

2. Agenda Performance Assessment What and why? What is quality? How do we develop PAs? What kinds of support are available?

3. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT Asks students to think and to produce--to demonstrate learning through work authentic to the discipline and/or real world.

4. Performance assessment asks students TO THINK and TO PRODUCE. Student Action

5. Think-Pair 1.Describe one performance assessment you have implemented or seen. 2.Describe one assessment that is NOT a performance assessment that you have implemented or seen.

6. CRITERIA OR CATEGORIES FOR COMPARING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS Number of performance outcomes Instructional support during administration Student choice/ decision- making Range of correct answers Duration

7.  Collaboration and discussion  Peer and teacher feedback  Opportunities for revision  In and out of the classroom  No collaboration or discussion  No feedback  No opportunities for revision  In the classroom Curriculum Embedded PT On-Demand Standardized PT Types of Performance Tasks

8. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT …is learning by doing …links curriculum, instruction, and assessment …is assessment for and as learning …targets skills and knowledge that matter

9. CCSSLHSS W1 Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. How democratic was Athenian democracy? Make an argument about the ancient Athenian system of government. In 2-5 paragraphs below, take a position and then support it with reasons and evidence.

10. Documents Two adapted & prepared excerpts from Pericles’ Funeral Oration Timeline and Map of Ancient Athens Image of Athenian vase Text explaining the Pnyx & modern image of the Pnyx

11. Day 1 1.Engage students 2.Introduce the task 3.Set historical context 4.Analyze a written primary source together 5.Summarize and close Day 2 1.Review, preview analysis 2.Analyze a written primary source together 3.Pairs work with primary sources & graphic organizer 4.Share out 5.Summarize and close Instruction Days 3 & 4 : Administer assessments.

12. Student response The Athenians quickly developed a democratic system to govern their people. This was the first democracy to ever be invented. In my opinion, Athenian democracy was democratic (especially for it’s time), but it was over-exagerated. Athenian democracy was not fully democratic.

13. Argumentative Writing Rubric

14. Performance Outcomes Scoring Rubrics Performance Tasks Piloting Scoring