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What Secondary Science Educators Need to Know About Performance Tasks

With new standards come new ways of assessing students’ understanding of disciplinary core ideas.  The 3-dimensional shifts in instruction require shifts in assessment.  One new shift is the use of a performance task to assess students’ sense-making.  During this session, participants will get an overview of what a performance task is, the key components that make up a performance task, and will utilize a task screener tool to evaluate a performance task.

Participants will review performance task components and will utilize a task screener tool to evaluate a performance task.

Key Takeaways

Participants will learn: 1. what a performance task is; 2. key components of a performance task; and 3. how to evaluate a performance task.

Online Course Overview

Online courses are available on-demand (asynchronously) and can be completed at any time.

Course Components

This online course consists of the following components:

Instructions

  • Link(s) to publications/resources
  • Recorded presentation video
  • Course assessment
  • Certificate of completion

Certificates

After successfully passing the online course assessment with a score of 80% or above, a completion confirmation email will be sent from ADE within approximately 24 hours. Certificates are available in the “Completed” course list section when logging into APLD.

It is highly recommended that you download certificates in APLD and save the files for your records.

 

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  • For questions regarding this resource, please contact Arizona Department of Education.
  • Contact Name: K12 Academic Standards
  • Phone No: 6023642333
  • Email Address: k12standards@azed.gov