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==To extend your knowledge from page 1, click on the links below to learn more about Authentic Performance Assessment. Then help your classmates build an effective definition to include examples for Authentic Performance Assessments .==

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http://ubdeducators.wikispaces.com/====== [|http://www.burlingtonk12.org/high_school_web/html/grasps_performance_tasks] The testing and class work done regularly just builds knowledge and fact to support demnonstration for what should be the final assessment that could very neatly be a performance task in social studies. Things like debates, simulated UN meetings, socratic seminars, creating and designing plans, interviewing--this list goes on and on for social studies. anna b (I don't know if this is what I'm suppose to do?)


 * I am not exactly sure what I am supposed to post here – but the unit I am working on is an elementary writing unit. Below are a couple of the performance task ideas that I have come up with. I believe each of these allows a student to do the same work that you and I have to do in our work lives everyday. One of the components I like the best about this is use of peer editing, allowing students to evaluate their own work and others and giving them an opportunity to learn to use constructive feedback from their peers. I believe that working together and being able to constructively evaluate the work of others and accept constructive critique is an absolutely critical part of living and working in the 21st Century. Wendy S. **

Students will interview a person 65 years or older using the interview questions provided in class and any they devised on their own. Students will take the completed interview and plan how the responses to the interview questions will fit into a five paragraph essay (A guide/rubric will be given to each child to help with this task.). Students will peer and self edit their papers. Not really sure what to do here either, but an example of an authentic performance task in language arts for a unit on memoir would be the drafting, revising, peer editing and publishing of the memoir itself. This is a multistaged project, and while the end result is the polished memoir, the other stages (drafting, revising, editing) are also authentic performance tasks that are necessities for any writing. The rubric for the memoir would be shared with students ahead of time and students can decide their audience and purpose for writing. Jenna B.
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Our collective definition reads something like this (feel free to correct me or reword this definition if it does not accurately convey the group meaning): An authentic performance task is an evaluation of student understanding that places a strong emphasis on transfer to situations outside the classroom, often involving simulations and real world scenarios; such tasks allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of a topic of study. As posted above, and on screen one of the wiki, each content area specialist suggests examples of performance task ideas for students to accomplish the goal of performance task evaluations. Shawna H.

Chris P. I believe the authentic performance task is one that brings real world situations / problems to our students to solve. The students will transfer their understandings of a leson to this final task or project and demonstrate meaningful understanding. I know the authentic Performance Assessment will provide kids with a true adult like experience that better prepares them for life beyond graduation. One website showed how Spanish students designed plazas and acted as a tour guide and spoke about thecomponents of their plaza. That was an awsome idea !

I agree with Chris when she says that an authentic performance task involves real world situations and Shawna's statement that they place a strong emphasis on transfer to situations outside the classroom. One of the sites had students doing an interview of someone who used decimals in a situation they had. The students then had to reflect on a time when they used decimals in a similar way and write an essay about how the decimals were used, what value the decimals played in the problem, and were there other ways the problem could have been solved. I thought this was a great way to help students realize that decimals are an important part of life and it is necessary to have an understanding of what they stand for and how mathematical operations affect the numbers. Lori P.

Brian V. The Lewis and Clark unit is a colluminating activity will be a hallway mural. The science dept has a mural in their hallway, why not social studies!! I'd like to use the Colorado History mural as an example of how a story can be told with images. I'd like all the students to contribute drawn images using the computer program Skitch. We will have gallery walks in the classroom and select the best images for the mural. I see an essay component and even a math element with the grid/ratio of the wall. I will have to work closely with the art teacher and create an after school team to paint the mural. Lots of problems, but a great final product.