1. Analyzing Performance Tasks: Turning Results Into Action
Getting Smarter & Long Term EL Symposium
January 13, 2015
Access PPT at:
Introductions (name, school, what hope to get out of today)

2. Outcomes
Review the role of performance tasks in a balanced assessment system
Use a protocol to analyze student tasks for evidence of common understandings and misunderstandings, identify instructional implications, and develop an action plan
Reflect upon how this process could be used in their own district or school

3. What is a Performance Task and why are they important?
Turn to a partner & discuss (5 min)
Whole group share out

4. What is a Performance Task?
Extended learning activities that…
measure student’s ability to integrate and apply knowledge and skills across multiple standards
engage students in real-world situations or complex problems
Review definition

5. Why Are PTs Important?
Better measure depth of understanding, problem-solving skills, and complex analysis
Give insight into student thinking and reasoning
Provide information about student learning while it is happening
Review importance/value

6. What is the Role of Performance Tasks in a Balanced Assessment System?
Emphasize key outcome for today -- knowing how PTs fit into your overall assessment system

7. Balanced Assessment System
Assessment OF
Assessment FOR
Summative
Periodic
May be state-mandated, publisher-made, or teacher-designed
Often standardized
Happens after material has been taught
A snapshot in time
Essential Question: What have students already learned?
Formative
Frequent
Curriculum and instructionally-embedded
Teacher-made, student-involved
Happens while material is being taught
A moving picture (journey)
Essential Question: How can we help students learn more?
Review different types of assessment
PTs are typically Assessment FOR learning

8. Are We in Balance? Performance Tasks
Review the spectrum of assessments
Highlight where PTs fall on that continuum -- ultimately depends on how you use the results

9. How Do Performance Tasks Help Us Make More Informed Decisions?
Refer back to why PTs are important
But in order to get full potential need to have wrap-around structures

10. Performance Task Cycle
Assessment Administration
Lesson Implementation
Collaborative Scoring
Analysis & Planning
Set the Context
Focus on Learning
Implications & Next Steps
Stress importance of full cycle in order to achieve full benefits of PT
Today you will experience ¾ of this cycle

11. 7th Grade ELA Performance Task
Overview: Your goal is to understand the problem of homelessness and to make a decision about whether one of these approaches the other cities have developed might work in San Diego.
Review the following materials to complete this task:
Teacher Directions & Pre-Activity
Task (3 Questions)
Sources (3 texts w/ graphics)
Rubric
Overview of Grade 7 ELA Task
Give time to complete task, read sources, etc. (20 minutes)

12. SET THE CONTEXT

13. Stage 1 -- Set the Context
Why did we give this assessment to students?
What did we expect to learn from it?
What did this assessment demand students to demonstrate?
Revisit PT
Table talk / whole group discussion

14. Stage 1 -- Set the Context
This Performance Task required students to…
identify relevant information from sources
explain how evidence supports an author’s claim
make and support their own claim with evidence
Highlight some potential challenges in this stage?

15. FOCUS ON LEARNING

16. Stage 2 -- Focus on Learning
Big Picture:
Sort and count papers by score
Construct a line plot of student performance
How might we describe students’ overall performance on this assessment?
Sort papers into total scores, count them
Distribute line plot -- complete this for entire district or for each school or for classroom
How did students do overall?
Break into score range & identify understandings/misunderstandings -- type into Google doc
Review full Google doc

17. Stage 2 -- Focus on Learning
Closer Look:
Examine student work in these scoring ranges:
0 - 1 total points
2 - 3 total points
4 - 5 total points
For each score range, what did students understand and misunderstand? What could students do and not do?
What makes you think that? What is your evidence?
Break into score range & identify understandings/misunderstandings -- type into Google doc
Review full Google doc

18. IMPLICATIONS & NEXT STEPS

19. Stage 3 -- Implications & Next Steps
Based on these common understandings and misunderstandings in the 7th grade samples...
What are the instructional implications?
What are your next steps?
Create an action plan
Based on the Google doc, what does this mean for your instructional next steps….

20. Performance Task Cycle
Assessment Administration
Lesson Implementation
Collaborative Scoring
Analysis & Planning
Set the Context
Focus on Learning
Implications & Next Steps

22. Putting This Into Practice
When is your next performance task?
What needs to be in place for you to use this process and when?
What are some of the challenges you foresee in implementing this process at your district or site and how might you overcome them?
How might you take what we did today & bring this back to your school sites?

23. Please complete this short survey.
How Did We Do?
Please complete this short survey.
Link to response spreadsheet:

24. Resources Performance Task Analysis Protocol Analysis Worksheet
Action Plan Template

25. Assessment, Accountability, & Evaluation Unit
Shannon Coulter, Lead Coordinator ;
Todd Langager, Program Evaluation Coordinator ;