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Performance-Based Assessments

12/11/2016

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The NCSS Social Studies Performance-Based Assessment Clearinghouse has been created to provide:
  1. examples of social studies performance-based assessment measures conducted at local and state levels
  2. research findings that support the use of performance-based assessment to inform instruction, and
  3. existing educational policies that can inform advocacy efforts for the inclusion of social studies performance-based assessment at the local, state and national level.

Many teachers have created their own performance assessments that could be included in this archive. For instance, my students were recently asked to take notes on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Then, they were asked to use their textbook to corroborate or match the historical details from the video biography and provide a page number as a citation.

The chart illustrates that advanced students were able to corroborate 12-20 facts in one 53-minute class period, while lower-achieving students could only match 1 to 5 historical details from the textbook to the film in the same time frame. This population of 9th and 10th grade World History students (N=30) had an average performance of 7.87 historical matches. This activity gives students a purpose for taking notes and immediate feedback on the usefulness of their note-taking techniques. The image below shows how students matched video content to the historical details in their textbook. How do you teach students to corroborate facts using multiple sources?
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7/6/2020 11:36:11 pm

I am kind of wondering where did I first read about that performance based assessment you have mentioned above because I am so sure that this is the first that I have read something about this as well. Anyway, please know that I find this article both interesting and informative. This will help all of the people who are directly involved with this become more enlightened. I must say that social studies are indeed fun and interesting to learn. I will definitely try my best to become more knowledgeable with the said study to make sure that I will be able to understand your upcoming posts.

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