Chapter 7: Performance Based Assessments

A good classroom-level rubric serves multiple formative and summative purposes when it:

• Defines quality

• Guides interventions

• Provides no feedback to students

• Makes judgements more vague

True or False? Holistic rubrics have more than one scale

• True

• False

True or False? Hands on projects are performance assessments.

• True

• False

What are the two parts of performance assessment?

• The task to be completed

• Students reading the directions

• Creating lessons with assessments

• The criteria for judging the quality of work

Levels on a rubric are the points on a scale defining degrees of what?

• Numbers

• Quality

• Proficiency

• Students

What refers to the sentences or phrases representing each indicator at each level on a rubric?

• Levels

• Learning targets

• Descriptors

• Criteria

True or False? Multiple choice assessments are performance based.

• True

• False

True or False? Conducting a laboratory experiment is performance based assessment

• False

• True

True or False? It is not important to write clear tasks for students.

• True

• False

Which of these is an example of performance based assessment?

• Short answer unit test

• Multiple choice quiz

• Creating a work of art

• Conference with the teacher