Performance-Based Learning & Assessment in Middle School Science

Taylor & Francis

This book contains a collection of performance tasks and easy-to-use assessment tools, ready to be photocopied and distributed to your students. The tasks in this book ask students to write letters, prepare posters, create charts and graphs, prepare 3D models, write skits, take surveys, and otherwise apply what they have learned. > This book contains a collection of performance tasks and easy-to-use assessment tools, ready to be photocopied and distributed to your students. The tasks in this book ask students to write letters, prepare posters, create charts and graphs, prepare 3D models, write skits, take surveys, and otherwise apply what they have learned. > Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Creature Feature Performance Task; Chapter 3 Embedded Performance Tasks used Both for Learning and Assessment; Chapter 4 Curriculum Standards for Performance Tasks; Chapter 5 How to Make a Performance Task; Chapter 6 Making Tools to Assess and Evaluate Student Work; Chapter 7 Performan;