Use this practical , school tested book to develop performance units and assessments that are worthwhile and challenging. Maximize student assessment results and reach the highest standards with the most complete "how to" resource of its kind. Achieve success with performance tasks and assessments across disciplines and grade levels. This easy-to-use guidebook provides the tools you need to successfully design, adapt, evaluate, refine or implement performance tasks and assessments. Take advantage of the step-by-step guides, easy-to-use designers and organizers, and extensive resource lists that are helping educators around the world.

Benefit From: * Practical, teacher-tested strategies and guidelines for developing classroom & system performance tasks * Step-by-step guidelines for developing effective rubrics * Easy-to-use tools for evaluating tasks, assessments, and rubrics * Templates to help align curriculum, instruction, & assessment * Guides & templates to support uniform assessment procedures * Resource lists of over

150 performance task ideas 120 usable performance contexts 190 formats for student products and performances 30 universal concepts and themes 80 assessment prompts for self-assessment & reflection 265 performance roles & audiences 80 critical tips for earning stakeholder support 150 additional resources * Clarification of multiple forms of assessment essential for thorough and effective assessment of student learning * A thesaurus of qualitative and quantitative terms for rubrics * Timesaving performance management & grading forms * Easy-to-use templates for planning performance scaffolding * A glossary of terms in easy-to-understand language

The content of the book is as follow:
Chapter 1: Performance based learning
An overview of the philosophical and theoritical foundation for performance-based learning and assessments.

Chapter 2: An Oversiew of assessment and evaluaation.
A clear and consice development of the three major assessment categories

Chapter 3: An Overview of performance designed

Chapter 4: Designing performance

Chapter 5: Performance task design: template for people in a hurry

Chapter 6: Aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment

Chapter 7: Rubrics
Rubrics are the key to high quality performance and learning. This chapter provides extensive coverage of rubrics...

Chapter 8: Learning Events, checkpoints and logistics

Chapter 9: Assessing performance designs

Chapter 10: Launching initiatives and staying afloat