Technology to Enable Authentic Performance Assessments

“To be on track for college and careers, students need to show that they can analyze and solve complex problems, communicate clearly, synthesize information, apply knowledge, and generalize learning appropriately to other settings. To evaluate these and other higher-order skills, assessments must elicit complex student demonstrations and applications of knowledge – “bubble tests” alone, no matter how well-designed, are not adequate to the task.”

- Joanne Weiss, Director, Race to the Top Program, 2010

How are you assessing students’ higher-order skills and growth over time?

Are you providing students with meaningful ways to demonstrate what they know and are able to do?

Do you have the tools you need to collect and use evidence of student performance on complex tasks?

Scalable Portfolio-Based Performance AssessmentsEducators have long seen the value of having students develop portfolios of their work as tools for both learning and assessment.

Combined with authentic performance tasks, portfolios help students to:

Apply their knowledge and skills to new areas•

Reflect upon their learning in order to hone their skills over • time

Demonstrate their abilities to effectively communicate, solve • problems, and develop new ways of thinking and doing

In the past, however, a lack of transparency and an inability to produce meaningful data with paper-based portfolios have prohibited wide-scale adoptions of this more authentic assessment method.

With the Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) by TaskStream, it is possible to implement large-scale portfolio assessments that make learning meaningful for students, while also producing real-time data to drive instructional decisions, monitor student achievement, and showcase progress to the community.

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e-Portfolio and Performance Assessment Technology for the Next Generation

Assess Skills & Abilities Based on Student Work ProductsTaskStream’s e-portfolio assessment system enables you to define specific artifacts and evidence to collect from students. Whether you are using research projects, reflections, papers, presentations, reports, multi-media projects, or other performance tasks, you are able to assess students based on actual work products and demonstrations of complex skills and abilities.

In addition to providing a central, organized repository of student artifacts, LAT by TaskStream allows you to define evaluation methods aligned with state standards (including the Common Core) from an integrated standards database. This structure facilitates performance assessments across states or districts.

Engage Students in Demonstrating Learning Student creativity and voice are encouraged with the flexibility to submit work as text, images, videos, and files of all types. The Web-based system makes it easy for students to direct their own learning from school or home and enables them to share the nature of their learning experiences with classmates, teachers, and parents within a secure environment.

Project Portfolio

HomeMy project was studying Le Chatelier’s Principle: If a chemical system at equilibrium experiences a change in concentration, temperature, volume, or partial pressure, then the equilibrium shifts to counteract the imposed change and a new equilibrium is established.

Home Research Prototype Final Product Final Reflections

Author: Rich Williams Modified: 05.09.2010

Martin Luther King Middle School

WritingThese are two essays I wrote for my Literature in Film class about Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein. The first essay analyzes the fundamental differences between the novel and 1994 film versions of Frankenstein. In the second essay, I analyze Mary Shelly's condemna-tion of society in Frankenstein, as represented by the alienation and miscomprehension of the Franken-stein's creature. In bothessays, I illustrate my points to the reader through concrete introduc-tions, ideas, and conclusions.

File Attachments:A Visual Translation of Frankenstein The Nature of Evil in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Home / WritingHome

About Me

Learning Plan

Career Goals

Personal Interests

Writing

History

Math

Science

Art

Community Service

Author: Lisa Chu Modified: 05.09.2010

Fair OaksHigh SchoolHigh School Graduation Requirements

My 21st Century Skills Portfolio

Welcome to my 21st Century Skills Portfolio!

Welcome to my 21st

Century Skills Portfolio! This portfolio is organized by the types of skills that are important for me to succeed in college and in my career. In each section, I have included examples of projects, papers, and other assignments that I have completed in school that I think best demonstrate my skills in that area.

Home Global Awareness Creativity & Innovation Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Communication & Collaboration Media & Technology Leadership & Responsibility

Author: Julia Ramos Modified: 05.22.2010

CentralValley High

Introduction to my Portfolio

Evaluate Work Easily with Online RubricsTeachers and administrators can create custom rubrics and forms to score student work in the system.

LAT by TaskStream makes it easy for teachers to evaluate student work products against standards and promotes collaboration between students and their teachers.

The system keeps student work and teacher feedback organized and logs the history of revisions and interactions.

Empower Teachers with Timely Performance DataWith centralized performance data connected to standards, the system offers easy-to-generate, real-time reports that empower educators at all levels to make instructional and curricular decisions based on authentic assessments of student performance.

Whether you want to track progress of work activity or analyze student performance by demographics, LAT’s robust reporting capabilities allow for a wide range of analysis at individual and group levels. Armed with these powerful data from real learning experiences, teachers and administrators can more readily develop students who are prepared for college and career.

Evaluation Summary for Stage 1: Research

Writing

Final Score: 3.00 (out of 4)

Detailed Results (Rubric used: Project Research)

(1) Falls Below Has di�culty with paragraph structure and simple sentences; limited vocabulary; di�culty with grammatical skills

(2) ApproachesAble to write simple sentences; understands basic grammatical concepts; vocabulary is developing; di�culty with paragraph structure

(3) MeetsAble to write complex sentences; understands intermediate grammatical concepts; enhanced vocabulary; ability to compose paragraphs; di�culty with standard essay form

(4) ExceedsAdvanced vocabulary and grammatical skills enhance the composition of clear, focused, creative compositions

Standards:

USA – Common Core – College- and Career-Readiness Standards

English Language Arts - Focus: Writing

Standard 5: Create a logical progression of ideas or events, and convey the relationships among them.

Standard 6: Choose words and phrases to express ideas precisely and concisely.

Standards 9: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard written English, including grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Criterion Score: 3.00 Comments: Good work product. However, I believe you could have been more creative with your vocabulary choices.

Sophomore Year

Folio Areas Assessed Authors Evaluated Results for Group Graph (Average for Group)

Project

Re�ection

1 of 3 (33%)

3 of 3 (100%)

1 met / 0 not met

Avg: 2.45/4 (61%)

Author NameRubric: 21st Century Skills

Criterion 1Creativity

Criterion 2Critical Thinking

Criterion 3Communication

Criterion 4Media Literacy

Student 1Student ID: 524317

Student 2Student ID: 927401

Student 3Student ID: 972648

Average for Group:

3.00

2.50

3.00

2.83

1.00

2.50

2.00

1.83

3.00

3.00

3.00

3.00

2.00

2.00

2.50

2.17

Final Scores for ‘Re�ection’

Superior Client SupportAt TaskStream, we know that training and support are critical to any successful technology implementation. This is why we provide unlimited, high-quality implementation consulting along with online training and ongoing support to all teachers and administrators at no additional charge.

Ask any TaskStream user, and they will tell you that our level of immediate and continuous support is simply unparalleled. It ensures the system is customized to meet your needs and that your resources can be dedicated to improvement and not technology.

About TaskStreamTaskStream provides the highest quality Web-based software and supporting services to efficiently plan and manage assessment processes and facilitate the demonstration of learning achievement. For over a decade, TaskStream has empowered educators to go beyond compliance to establish a culture of continuous improvement. Using TaskStream’s powerful tools for performance assessments, e-portfolios, rubric-based data reporting, and more, educators around the world are ensuring that students are learning the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in today’s global economy.

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