Designing Student-Centered Performance Assessments

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Overview

The primary focus of student-centered assessment is the ability of students to demonstrate their mastery of a topic. The goal of an assessment is not a final grade, but to create a learning experience in which the student is able to clearly communicate and demonstrate what they are learning. By varying the types of assessment offered, students can express themselves in a way that is most comfortable for them.

This workshop is part of a series. Explore the other workshop sessions below:

• Session A: Developing Multiple and Varied Checks for Understanding
• Session B: Designing Student-Centered Performance Assessments
• Session C: Providing Feedback to Promote Academic Growth
• Session D: Tracking Student Data to Promote Growth
• Session E: Using Data to Differentiate Small Group

Audience

This workshop is designed for teachers and coaches who want to build understanding around how to design student-centered assessment to support students in demonstrating mastery. This session would be a good fit for any educator, whether they are just beginning to transition to more formative assessment in their classroom, or they are more experienced and want to build ideas around how to incorporate more student-centered assessment in their classroom.

Outcome

I design or adapt student-centered formative assessments.

Learning Experience

Session B: Designing Student-Centered Performance Assessments

Define

• Identify the key characteristics of student-centered assessment
• Evaluate a lesson and assessment types to determine how they are student-centered

Explore

• Critically think about how tech tools that can create a sustainable and replicable system of student-centered assessment
• Collaboratively brainstorm a student-centered assessment with provided “ingredients”

Build

• Plan for a student-centered assessment they can use in their classroom
• Get peer feedback on their plan