Design Team Workshop: From Competencies to Performance Assessments

November 17, 2014: 4:00pm–7:00pm

Our Essential Question
How do we translate our pathway outcomes into high-quality performance assessments?

Our Learning Target
I can explain the concept of a competency and can identify the competencies on which my school’s performance assessment system is based.

Our Product
By the end of the session, our team will have a list of measurable competencies to which we are designing the performance assessments that will populate student portfolios.

Documents you will use or refer to during the workshop

  1. Workshop Agenda
  2. Performance Assessment Planning Template (pdf), (doc)
  3. An example of a performance assessment using the template
  4. SCALE Performance Assessment Quality Rubric (pdf), (doc)

Other resources you might find helpful or interesting

  1. More information about a Stanford MOOC on performance assessment (fall 2014)
  2. An EdWeek blog on the power of defenses of learning (cites LAHSA)
  3. LAUSD Portfolio Defense Structure: A Proposal, (also in Word)

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