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The Intersection Between 
 Performance Assessment and 
 Project-Based Learning Justin Wells

Driving Question(s) Deeper Learning How does performance assessment serve project- based learning? 
 How does project-based learning serve performance assessment?

Deeper Learning Learning Target I can improve my projects through well-defined and strategically placed performance assessments.

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What defines a 
 performance assessment?

Permit Exam Driver’s Test

PA, or not a PA? . . . a multiple-choice 
 math quiz

PA, or not a PA? . . . a lab report

PA, or not a PA? . . . a job interview

PA, or not a PA? . . . music audition

PA, or not a PA? . . . a book report on 
 Guns, Germs, and Steel

PA, or not a PA? . . . research paper on 
 ancient Greek drama

PA, or not a PA? . . . student-written & 
 performed tragedy 
 in Greek style

PA, or not a PA? . . . •math quiz •research paper on 
 ancient Greek •music audition drama •a job interview •student-written & 
 •a lab report performed tragedy 
 •book report on 
 in Greek style Gun, Germs, & Steel

PA, or not a PA? . . . a job interview I can do this job.

Long-Term Learning Target Task I can do this job. job interview I can design a 
 a lab report scientific experiment. I can analyze primary 
 a book report on historical sources. Guns, Germs, and Steel I understand what defines research paper on ancient ancient Greek tragedy. Greek drama student-written & 
 I understand what defines performed tragedy 
 ancient Greek tragedy. in ancient Greek style

PA, or not a PA? . . . a job interview I can do this job.

PA, or not a PA? . . . a job interview I can interview well.

performance assessment: 
 a baseline definition • product or performance • application of targeted skill(s)

Practice: 
 Design some performance assessments 
 that align with a learning target.

1. Pick an important skill in your course. 2. Frame it as an “I can” statement. 3. Sketch out three di ff erent performance assessments 
 that would measure your intended outcome.

I can revise writing. 1. Take this sloppy passage; make it 25% shorter without losing any meaning. 2. Review the comments you received on your paper; resubmit a revised draft that addresses those comments. 3. Save at least three versions of a paper between first and final draft; write a one-page reflection on how the di ff erences between drafts demonstrate your two or more of the revision techniques we’ve studied.

What’s the relationship between project-based learning and performance assessment?

“ Performance assessment is assessment based on observation and judgment; we look at a performance or product and make a ” judgment as to its quality. — Rick Stiggins, Assessment Guru

“ A project is a unit of instruction that culminates in a rigorous product or performance that is led by an essential question and incorporates fundamental elements such as student choice, inquiry and an ” authentic audience. — Envision College Success Portfolio

PA PBL do learning 
 evaluation product 
 process or 
 target 
 performance practice 
 skills skills engage challenge inquiry

PBL PA o 
 t y e n r u o j e g n e l l s a h s e c c e c h u t s

Inferno Mosaic Retelling Project

sk Your Tasks 1. Proposal 2. Art piece (w/explanatory e essay of artistic choices) 3. Scene Script (one per group) 4. Exhibition Performance 
 (w/memorized passage) http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/utopia/gallery/0208gate.jpg 5. Literary Analysis Essay

PBL PA o 
 t y e n r u o j e g n e l l s a h s e c c e c h u t s

C T E D E J S O I R G P N L E A L I E T M N E E CHALLENGING N S T S PROBLEM OR S E SUSTAINED QUESTION INQUIRY PUBLIC PRODUCT KEY KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, AUTHENTICITY & SUCCESS SKILLS CRITIQUE & REVISION STUDENT VOICE & CHOICE REFLECTION L G B O P L D D R S T A A D N

The Six A’s of PBL ‣ Authenticity ‣ Academic Rigor ‣ Applied Learning ‣ Active Exploration ‣ Adult Connections ‣ Assessment Practices Adria Steinberg's 6 A's of PBL

Good reviews of PBL technique: • BIE’s gold standard • High Tech High’s Teacher Guide to PBL • Steinberg’s 6 A’s

PBL must always justify itself.

Framing your own 
 “challenge” and “journey to success”

PBL PA o 
 t y e n r u o j e g n e l l s a h s e c c e c h u t s

PBL PA L B P d e d e e n k s a t s & e c t e i t g c r a a t r p

What have you learned? • one take-away • one puzzle

Stay in touch . . . Justin Wells justin@envisionlearning.org 
 @jusowells

The Course

Project

Perf. Task Project

Perf. Task Perf. Task Unit

Perf. Task Project

Perf. Task Perf. Task Project

Performance Assessment Planning Template

performance assessment { “learning target” 1. the outcome(s) 2. how to demonstrate the outcome “task” 3. how to measure 
 the outcome “rubric”

Test of a true performance assessment . . . before during a,er