Engaging Students Through Performance Assessment: Creating Performance Tasks to Monitor Student Learning

Performance assessment is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list, e.g., a student may be asked to explain historical events, generate scientific hypotheses, or solve math problems. Engaging Students Through Performance Assessment is a "how-to" for teachers create performance assessments, score performance assessments, and use performance assessments to improve student instruction