Developing High-Quality Performance Assessments
Grades K-12
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
September 18
September 18, 2018
Performance assessments offer teachers the opportunity to gather information about student understanding, knowledge, and skills in a more authentic and engaging manner than afforded by traditional standardized tests. However, high-quality tasks and rubrics can be a real challenge to create. This session will familiarize participants with the fundamentals of performance assessment development by exploring how to unpack standards to craft high-quality learning goals, develop tasks that measure deep understanding and transfer of learning, create instructions that reflect learning goals and communicate clear expectations for student performance, and develop scoring rubrics that provide informative instructional feedback and align with the standards delineated by the VDOE Quality Criteria Tool. All teachers and instructional leaders who are beginning the challenging work of creating high-quality tasks and rubrics are encouraged to participate in this session, which will give them access to the resources and strategies that are available through the VaSCL Task Bank. All participants will be encouraged to continue to advance their understanding and implementation of what they have learned during this workshop by field-testing and providing feedback on tasks and rubrics that are created for the VaSCL Task Bank during the 2018-2019 school year. Anyone who is planning to participate in the five meetings of the Task Bank for the first time this year is asked to register for this session, so that they can receive the training needed to be effective members of Task Bank Work Groups.
K-12 Classroom Teachers, Instructional Leaders, and School Administrators
Conference runs from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Registration and breakfast begin at 8:00 a.m.
Lunch will be served at noon.
Free parking and free internet access will be provided.
All registered participants will receive an email with event details in the week before the conference is held.
The conference fee is $149 for each participant who is member of a school division which is a member of VaSCL.
The registration fee for participants from Non-Member school divisions is $199.
Registration fees include breakfast and lunch, as well as parking and internet access.
The registration deadline is Friday, September 14, 2018.
In the registration form (below), required fields are indicated with a red asterisk. Mistakes made in completing the form will be highlighted in red.
Once you have submitted the registration, the person or people whom you have designated to receive a confirmation email should see that email (with registration information included) within 24 hours.
Pre-Payment is not required for participation.
After the conference has been held, an invoice will be emailed to the person identified in Billing Information on the Conference Registration Form for each participant.
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