Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessment

1. Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessment Stuart Kahl, Founding Principal Measured Progress, Inc.

2. The Call for Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills • Business, political, and educational leaders • Common Core State Standards • NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards

3. Deeper Learning • Deeper learning is a process through which a person becomes capable of taking what was learned in one situation and applying it to new situations – in other words, learning for “transfer.” Through deeper learning students develop expertise in a particular discipline or subject area. • Education for Life and Work, NRC Research Brief, July 2012

4. Game Changers • Formative Assessment • Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessment

5. Performance Assessment • Performance assessment asks students to apply their knowledge and skills in creating some form of product, presentation, or demonstration.

6. Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessment (CEPA) • CEPAs are instructional units that include multiple learning and evidence-gathering activities, some of which may lead to products or performances that are evaluated for formative purposes and some that are scored for summative purposes.

7. Selected Current Initiatives • Statewide • OPAPP (Ohio) • MCAS (Massachusetts • School/District Consortia • QPA (Center for Collaborative Education – Boston) • NY Performance Standards Consortium

8. Issues with Performance Assessments in the “Authentic Assessment Era” • Content Quality • Technical Quality • Efficiency • Misconceptions

9. Misconceptions for CEPA Advocates to Overcome • Too time-consuming • An additional commitment • disconnected from required curriculum • Less reliable than multiple-choice • testing • Human scoring too subjective for • reliable, valid results

10. Curriculum-Embedded Performance Assessment • We know how to do it!