Summative Assessment:

1. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Summative Assessment: Performance Assessments Book pgs. 1 - 8

2. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Assessment StructurePerformance Assessments Unit Assessments Formative Summative Traditional Test Performance Assessment Informal Formal

3. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Backward Design Unit Goal Performance Assessment Lesson Objectives & Activities

4. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Performance Assessment • Purpose: To provide a culminating Unit assessment in which students demonstrate achievement of the Unit Goal through performance of a task. • Basis: Students with different learning styles can demonstrate achievement in a holistic way that differs from the typical Traditional Test. • Forms: A PA is expressed in 2 ways: • As a SWBAT statement, and • As the “prompt” that is given to students.

5. Classroom Curriculum Assessment The Performance Assessment • Includes previously unseen material that addresses the Diocesan Unit Concept at the critical-thinking level of the Diocesan Unit Goal, • Is holistic in nature, often allowing students to make decisions about the content, • Allows Basic, Proficient, Advanced achievement, and • Is completed I&I (individually and independently).

6. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Constructing Performance Assessments • Projects and presentations are performance assessments only if: • They allow students to demonstrate achievement of Unit Goal critical-thinking about the Unit Concept • The performance is done independently & individually (I&I) on previously unseen material • Younger students and ELLs may benefit from scaffolds and graphic organizers • Good performance assessments allow students to make decisions about the content

7. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Sample – Spanish I

8. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Sample – Kindergarten Art

9. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Sample – Kindergarten Art

10. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Course Page • Develop or refine a SWBAT form of a Performance Assessment for the first 2 Diocesan Units. • After writing them on your course page, write each on a post – it and add it to the wall where your grade level’s unit goals are displayed. • As time permits, continue with Performance Assessment SWBATs for Units 3, 4, and 5 and post them.

11. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Music Appreciation PA Prompt Unit Concept: Musical Elements and Terms Unit Goal: SWBAT describe a variety of musical terms. Unit Assessment: SWBAT describe, verbally or in written form, a set of musical terms. Performance Assessment Prompt: Create a coloring book, one page for each musical term given. On each page write a description of the term and draw a visual representation of the term.

12. Classroom Curriculum Assessment 8th Grade Music PA Prompt Unit Concept: Blues, Jazz and Improvisation Unit Goal: SWBAT compare and contrast various concepts found in the Blues and Jazz genre. Unit Assessment: After listening to a selection of music, students will differentiate between Jazz and the Blues. Performance Assessment Prompt: Using the provided checklists, check either Jazz or Blues for each quality that you are comparing as you listen to the selections of music.

13. Classroom Curriculum Assessment Take Home Points Performance Assessments: • Measure holistic achievement of the Unit Goal • Provide an alternate means of showing achievement of the Unit Goal • Are often based on authentic or real-life situations • Are graded with a rubric