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Direct linkWren, Doug; Cashwell, Amy – Educational Leadership, 2018
The author describes how Virginia Beach City Public Schools developed a performance assessment that they administer to all 4th graders, 7th graders, and high school students in the district. He describes lessons learned about creating good performance tasks and developing a successful scoring process, as well as sharing tools connected to this…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation, Grade 4
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Download full textBland, Lynne M.; Gareis, Christopher R. – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2018
After nearly two decades of federal and state accountability requirements relying on conventional standardized assessments, Virginia and several other states are moving to create more balanced approaches to statewide assessment systems that include the use of performance assessments. But Palm (2008) states, "Performance assessment can mean…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Innovation
Abbott, Amy L.; Wren, Douglas G. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2016
Two well-accepted ideas among educators are (a) performance assessment is an effective means of assessing higher-order thinking skills and (b) data-driven instruction planning is a valuable tool for optimizing student learning. This article describes a locally developed performance task (LDPT) designed to measure critical thinking, problem…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Performance Based Assessment, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
Jervis, Charles K. – 1998
This paper describes a technology assessment curriculum developed at Auburn High School (Virginia). The program was used in Honors Biology and General Chemistry classes and is based on Neil Postman's ten principles of interaction between technology and society and Edward de Bono's "Six Thinking Hats," a system of approaching a problem…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Evaluation Criteria
