Justin Wells

The Intersection BetweenPerformance Assessment and

Project-Based Learning

Deeper Learning Driving Question(s)

How does performance assessment serve project-based learning? How does project-based learning serve performance assessment?

Deeper Learning Learning Target

I can improve my projects through well-defined and strategically placed performance assessments.

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What defines a performance assessment?

Permit Exam Driver’s Test

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a multiple-choice math quiz

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a lab report

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a job interview

PA, or not a PA? . . .

music audition

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a book report on Guns, Germs, and Steel

PA, or not a PA? . . .

research paper on ancient Greek drama

PA, or not a PA? . . .

student-written & performed tragedy

in Greek style

PA, or not a PA? . . .

•math quiz•music audition•a job interview•a lab report•book report onGun, Germs, & Steel

• research paper on ancient Greek drama

•student-written & performed tragedyin Greek style

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a job interview

I can do this job.

Long-Term Learning Target Task

I can do this job. job interview

I can design a scientific experiment.

a lab report

I can analyze primary historical sources.

a book report onGuns, Germs, and Steel

I understand what defines ancient Greek tragedy.

research paper on ancient Greek drama

I understand what defines ancient Greek tragedy.

student-written & performed tragedy

in ancient Greek style

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a job interview

I can do this job.

PA, or not a PA? . . .

a job interview

I can interview well.

performance assessment: a baseline definition

• product or performance

• application of targeted skill(s)

Practice: Design some performance assessments

that align with a learning target.

1. Pick an important skill in your course.

2. Frame it as an “I can” statement. 3. Sketch out three different

performance assessments that would measure your intended outcome.

1. Take this sloppy passage; make it 25% shorter without losing any meaning.

2. Review the comments you received on your paper; resubmit a revised draft that addresses those comments.

3. Save at least three versions of a paper between first and final draft; write a one-page reflection on how the differences between drafts demonstrate your two or more of the revision techniques we’ve studied.

I can revise writing.

What’s the relationship between project-based learning and performance assessment?

Performance assessment is assessment based on observation and judgment; we look at a performance or product and make a judgment as to its quality.

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”— Rick Stiggins, Assessment Guru

A project is a unit of instruction that culminates in a rigorous product or performance that is led by an essential question and incorporates fundamental elements such as student choice, inquiry and an authentic audience.

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”— Envision College Success Portfolio

PBLPA do

productor

performance

evaluation learning process

target skills

practiceskills

challenge inquiryengage

PBL PA

the challengejourney to

success

Inferno Mosaic Retelling Project

Your Tasks

1. Proposal

2. Art piece (w/explanatory essay of artistic choices)

3. Scene Script (one per group)

4. Exhibition Performance (w/memorized passage)

5. Literary Analysis Essay

Your Task• Proposal

• First draft of art piece

• Thematic Scene Group Script

• Memorized Passage

• Final Essayhttp://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/utopia/gallery/0208gate.jpg

PBL PA

the challengejourney to

success

PUBLICPRODUCT

CHALLENGING PROBLEM OR QUESTION

SUSTAINED INQUIRY

AUTHENTICITY

STUDENTVOICE & CHOICE

CRITIQUE & REVISION

REFLECTION

ESSENTIAL PROJECT DESIGN ELEMENTS

GOLD S TA N D A R D PBL

KEYKNOWLEDGE,

UNDERSTANDING,& SUCCESS

SKILLS

The Six A’s of PBL

‣ Authenticity‣ Academic Rigor‣ Applied Learning‣ Active Exploration‣ Adult Connections‣ Assessment Practices

Adria Steinberg's 6 A's of PBL

Good reviews of PBL technique:

• BIE’s gold standard

• High Tech High’s Teacher Guide to PBL

• Steinberg’s 6 A’s

PBL must always justify itself.

Framing your own “challenge” and “journey to success”

PBL PA

the challengejourney to

success

PBL PA

target & task needed PBL

practices

What have you learned?

• one take-away • one puzzle

Stay in touch . . .

Justin Wells justin@envisionlearning.org @jusowells

TheCourse

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Performance Assessment Planning Template

performance assessment

1. the outcome(s)2. how to demonstrate

the outcome3. how to measure

the outcome{

“learning target”

“task”

“rubric”

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