Understanding Performance Tasks Definition A performance task requires

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Understanding Performance Tasks

Understanding Performance Tasks

Definition • A performance task requires students to demonstrate that they have mastered specific

Definition • A performance task requires students to demonstrate that they have mastered specific skills and competencies by performing or producing a paper or product.

Performance Tasks are found on the Smarter Balanced Assessment but are not limited to

Performance Tasks are found on the Smarter Balanced Assessment but are not limited to that format • Review the SBA Performance Task Characteristics on page 4 of the Performance Task Specifications • http: //www. smarterbalanced. org/wordpress/wpcontent/uploads/2012/05/Task. Item. Specifications/Performance. Tasks. Specifications. pdf

Performance Tasks challenge students at all quadrants of the Rigor and Relevance Framework •

Performance Tasks challenge students at all quadrants of the Rigor and Relevance Framework • http: //www. leadered. com/ourphilosophy/rigor-relevance-framework. php

For Migrant Summer School, our performance tasks will have the student • • Form

For Migrant Summer School, our performance tasks will have the student • • Form a question (given) Search for information (given) Make sense of it Synthesize and communicate what they learn

Compare this with research in academic, career, and life applications • • We have

Compare this with research in academic, career, and life applications • • We have a question We search for information We make sense of that information We communicate what we have found

Let’s look at the verbs • • We have a question We search for

Let’s look at the verbs • • We have a question We search for information We make sense of that information We communicate what we have found

Because these are important life skills, we find them in the Common Core and,

Because these are important life skills, we find them in the Common Core and, therefore, in the Smarter Balanced Claims • CCSS ELA Anchor Standards • SBA Claims

How do these tasks also address the CCSS capacities • p. 7 http: //www.

How do these tasks also address the CCSS capacities • p. 7 http: //www. corestandards. org/wpcontent/uploads/ELA_Standards. pdf

These tasks will also build student technology skills by • Using online video and

These tasks will also build student technology skills by • Using online video and research resources for students to gather the information • Have options of student products that use technology

These performance tasks will also • Build on an element of the STEM activities

These performance tasks will also • Build on an element of the STEM activities • Be fun!

The materials provided are meant to be adapted by teachers as needed for their

The materials provided are meant to be adapted by teachers as needed for their students. • Sample tasks • Brainstorm of additional ideas