Performance-Based Learning and Assessment in Middle School Science,9781883001810

Performance-Based Learning and Assessment in Middle School Science

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ISBN13: 9781883001810
ISBN10: 1883001811
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Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Eye on Education
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(6)
Six Questions to Focus Our Work on Improving Student Performance
1(1)
A Balanced Approach
2(1)
This Book's Focus
3(2)
Our Ultimate Goal Is for Students to Be Motivated, Capable, Independent Learners
5(2)
The Creature Feature Performance Task
7(20)
An Enrichment Follow-up for Creature Feature
9(1)
The Context for the Creature Museum Task
9(1)
The Creature Museum Performance Task
9(1)
The Assessment Lists for Creature Museum
9(1)
Summary
9(18)
Embedded Performance Tasks Used Both for Learning and Assessment
27(6)
The Problem of Assessment as an ``Add-on''
27(3)
The Problem of the Match Between Curriculum and Instruction: Is the Written Curriculum the Taught Curriculum?
30(1)
How Embedded Performance Tasks Influence Teaching
30(1)
Summary
31(2)
Curriculum Standards for Performance Tasks
33(8)
Content Standards for Science
33(2)
Language Arts Standards for Science
35(1)
Thinking Skills for Science
35(1)
Problem-Solving Process Performance Standards
36(1)
Work Habit and Performance Tasks
36(1)
Performance Tasks Integrate Knowledge of Science Content, Thinking Skills, Problem-Solving Skills, and Work Habits
36(1)
Themes, Big Ideas, and Essential Questions of Science Also Serve as Performance Standards
37(1)
Sample of a Seventh Grade Biology Curriculum That Is Organized Around Performance Standards
38(2)
Why Themes and Content Standards?
40(1)
How to Make a Performance Task
41(20)
Definitions and Dimensions for Performance Tasks
41(2)
Dimensions of a Good Performance Task
42(1)
Coming Up with Ideas for Performance Tasks
43(9)
Questions That Act as Guides to Creation of Performance Tasks
44(2)
Thinking-Skill Verbs Provide Strategies to Create Performance Tasks
46(2)
Ideas for Formats of Final Products and/or Performances
48(3)
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Gives Us Ideas for Performance Tasks
51(1)
Making Classroom-Friendly Performance Tasks from Those Ideas
52(8)
Turning the Plan Resulting from the Framework into the Performance Task That Is Presented to the Student
57(1)
Other Components of the Set of Materials for a Performance Task
58(2)
Summary
60(1)
Making Tools to Assess and Evaluate Student Work
61(26)
Definition of Terms
61(3)
The Purpose and Design of an Assessment Tool
64(2)
Validity and Reliability
64(1)
Scoring Tools Should Always Be Used in Conjunction with Benchmarks
65(1)
Subjectivity vs. Objectivity
65(1)
Scoring Tools Provide Information to Improve Performance
66(1)
The Assessment Tool Should Promote Independent Learning
66(1)
The Assessment Tools Should Be User-Friendly
66(1)
Different Types of Assessment Tools
66(3)
Options for Scoring Tools: The Scoring Tool Tree
66(3)
Visiting the Branches of the Scoring Tool Tree
69(10)
Holistic Rubrics
70(2)
Analytic Rubrics
72(3)
Combining Scores on Criteria
75(2)
Acceptable and Unacceptable Work
77(1)
Analytic Assessment Lists
77(2)
Tailored Assessment Lists for Specific Performance Tasks
79(3)
What Kinds of Items Go on the Assessment List?
79(1)
Why Do Assessment Lists Include Elements About Writing Format and Work Habits?
80(1)
How Many Items Go on the Assessment List?
80(1)
How Are Points Assigned?
80(1)
How Is the Assessment List Used?
81(1)
Using the Tailored Assessment List to Assess and Grade the Student's Response to Creature Feature
81(1)
Coaching Students to Accurately Assess Their Own Work
81(1)
Teachers Add Comments to Assessment Lists
82(1)
Assessment Lists Are Dynamic Tools for Getting Students to Pay Attention
82(1)
Which Assessment List Is Best?
83(1)
Students Can Create Their Own Assessment Lists
83(3)
Peer Assessment
86(1)
How Do Parents React to Assessment Lists?
86(1)
Summary
86(1)
Performance Tasks for a Scientific Method
87(20)
Dimensions of a Scientific Process
87(4)
Performance Tasks That Include Both the Scientific Method and Science Content
91(6)
Consumer Research as an Authentic Application of the Scientific Method
97(1)
The Science Fair
97(6)
Summary
103(4)
APPENDIX A: PERFORMANCE TASKS 107(66)
Index of Performance Tasks
107(1)
Curriculum Standards for Performance Tasks
108(5)
Action and Reaction Poster Performance Task
113(2)
Deer Dilemma Performance Task
115(7)
Electric Circuits Performance Task
122(5)
Electric Energy Transformation and Transfer Performance Task
127(6)
Forensic Scientist Performance Task
133(2)
Heartbeat Performance Task
135(2)
Insect Mouth Parts Performance Task
137(2)
Invent a Musical Instrument Performance Task
139(2)
Invent a Worm Farm for Making Soil Performance Task
141(3)
Machine Skit Performance Task
144(2)
Model of How an Enzyme Works Performance Task
146(2)
Rolling Down the River Performance Task
148(7)
States of Matter Skit Performance Task
155(2)
What Do You Eat? Performance Task
157(4)
Worm Project Performance Task
161(12)
APPENDIX B: GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS 173(6)
APPENDIX C: A COLLECTION OF PERFORMANCE PROFILES FOR VARIOUS FORMATS OF STUDENT WORK 179(35)
Performance Profiles as Menus of Ideas for Assessment Lists
179(1)
Performance Profiles as Frameworks for Conversations Among Teachers
180(1)
Performance Profiles as Tools to Describe and Document the Proficiency Level of a Student's Performance
180(1)
Index to Performance Profiles
181(2)
Performance Profile for a Data Chart
183(1)
Performance Profile for Technical, Informational, and Expository Writing
184(4)
Performance Profile for a Bar or Line Graph
188(2)
Performance Profile for an Invention
190(2)
Performance Profile for Making Scientific Observations
192(2)
Performance Profile for a Map
194(1)
Performance Profile for a Science Model
195(2)
Performance Profile for a Multimedia Presentation
197(3)
Performance Profile for Writing a Newspaper Article
200(2)
Performance Profile for an Oral Presentation
202(3)
Performance Profile for a Poster
205(2)
Performance Profile for Research Skills
207(3)
Performance Profile for a Scientific Drawing
210(2)
Performance Profile for a Science Skit
212(2)
Performance Profile for a Written Summary of a Bar or Line Graph
214

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