Performance Assessment
Learn more about testing where students apply their knowledge to authentic problems and create a deliverable graded against specific criteria
What Is Performance Assessment?
Here's a handy glossary on terms like project-based learning, competency-based learning, and standards-based grading.
Education
Performance Assessment Seen Progressing From Theory to Practice
W ASHINGTON-With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th and 6th-grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper-elementary students
Education
U.S. Opts Out of International Performance Assessment
The United States has pulled out of an international performance-based assessment in mathematics and science, following objections to the project raised by members of a National Academy of Sciences panel.
Education
Commercial Test Publishers Entering Market for Performance Assessments
Arizona's contract with a commercial test publisher to develop its new performance-based assessment heralds a growing shift toward alternative forms of testing, state and testing officials assert.
Assessment
Opinion
Reconsidering Standards and Assessment: Performance Assessment: An Emphasis on 'Activity'
The commitment to establish national goals for education raises the question of how progress toward such goals should be assessed.
