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eSN Special Report: Performance Assessment
Making A Comeback In Schools
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- Learn
how performance assessment is re-emerging as a better way to measure
students' skills than a simple pencil-and-paper exam.
- Discover a three-part framework for integrating
performance assessment into your curriculum.
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Learn the keys to success from other education leaders
who are using performance assessment to better prepare students for college
or a career.
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Performance assessment is what teachers do every
day when they grade students' projects and assignments, but often this work
is not part of the high-stakes system that determines whether students are
ready to graduate--or whether schools as a whole are making progress.
For a
while in the 1990s, that was starting to change, as states like
Connecticut, Nebraska, and Wyoming were developing large-scale performance
assessment systems. But the dawning of No Child Left Behind "pushed
aside" these efforts, because it was too costly for states to include
performance assessment in their statewide accountability systems under the
law, said Joan Herman, director of UCLA's National Center for Research on
Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.
Now, the
tide is turning again.
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eSN Special Report: Performance Assessment Making A Comeback In Schools
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