Math Performance Assessments

This guide includes teacher-tested, reproducible performance assessment tasks and rubrics for math that are correlated to the NCTM standards and come complete with a student sheet, simple scoring rubric, teaching tips, and sample student work. Illustrations.

Performance tasks are highly effective tools to assist you in implementing rigorous standards. But how do you create, evaluate, and use such tools? In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Elizabeth Marquez explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students’ deeper understanding of mathematical concepts at the middle school level. You’ll learn how to: Evaluate the quality of performance tasks, whether you’ve written them yourself or found them online; Use performance tasks for instructional decision-making and to prepare students for summative assessments; Create your own performance tasks, or adapt pre-made tasks to best suit students’ needs; Design and use scoring rubrics to evaluate complex performance tasks; Use your students’ results to communicate more effectively with parents. This must-have second edition is fully aligned to the Common Core State Standards and assessments and includes a variety of new performance tasks and rubrics, along with samples of student work. Additionally, downloadable student handout versions of all the performance tasks are available as free eResources from our website (www.routledge.com/9781138906914), so you can easily distribute them to your class.

This book provides a collection of performance tasks and scoring rubrics for a number of important topics in high school mathematics. Included are many samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

Performance tasks are highly effective tools to assist you in implementing rigorous standards. But how do you create, evaluate, and use such tools? In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Joshua Dragoon explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students’ deeper understanding of mathematical concepts at the upper elementary level. You’ll learn how to: Evaluate the quality of performance tasks, whether you’ve written them yourself or found them online; Use performance tasks for instructional decision-making and to prepare students for summative assessments; Create your own performance tasks, or adapt pre-made tasks to best suit students’ needs; Design and use scoring rubrics to evaluate complex performance tasks; Use your students’ results to communicate more effectively with parents. This must-have second edition is fully aligned to the Common Core State Standards and assessments and includes a variety of new performance tasks and rubrics, along with samples of student work. Additionally, downloadable student handout versions of all the performance tasks are available as free eResources from our website (www.routledge.com/9781138906969), so you can easily distribute them to your class.

Contains performance tasks that can be used to assess high school students' understanding of the basic concepts used in mathematics.

Criteria for Good Performance Tasks; Engaging; Authenticity; Elicits Desired Knowledge and Skill; Enables Assessment of Individuals; Contains Clear Directions for Students; Summary; The Design Process; Create an Initial Design; Obtain Colleague Review; Pilot Task with Students; Revise Performance Task; Summary; 6 Creating a Rubric; Drafting a Scoring Rubric; Generic or Task-specific?; Task, Genre-specific, or Developmental?; Determining Criteria; Number of Points; Descriptions of Levels of Performance; Summary; Piloting the Rubric With Student Work; Evaluating a Sample of Student Work.

Performance tasks are highly effective tools to assist you in implementing rigorous standards. But how do you create, evaluate, and use such tools? In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Elizabeth Marquez explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students’ deeper understanding of mathematical concepts at the high school level. You’ll learn how to: Evaluate the quality of performance tasks, whether you’ve written them yourself or found them online; Use performance tasks for instructional decision-making and to prepare students for summative assessments; Create your own performance tasks, or adapt pre-made tasks to best suit students’ needs; Design and use scoring rubrics to evaluate complex performance tasks; Use your students’ results to communicate more effectively with parents. This must-have second edition is fully aligned to the Common Core State Standards and assessments and includes a variety of new performance tasks and rubrics, along with samples of student work. Additionally, downloadable student handout versions of all the performance tasks are available as free eResources from our website (www.routledge.com/9781138906990), so you can easily distribute them to your class.

This book provides a collection of performance tasks and scoring rubrics for a number of important topics in upper elementary school mathematics. Included are many samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.