Performance Assessment

STEM K12 10: Students demonstrate their learning through performance-based assessments and have opportunities to develop self-assessment and self-monitoring skills.

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Impact Narrative:

Scholars demonstrate their learning through performance-based assessments, including PBL Journals, Math and Science performance tasks, open-ended short responses, and student portfolios. Also, students are provided with teacher and peer feedback throughout the learning process. Students are required to reflect on their performance and determine opportunities for improvement after each PBL and learning unit.

       
Areas of Strength:

One of our most valuable strengths is that grade-level teachers collect and analyze performance-based data to identify which students require additional assistance and if lessons need to be modified.

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Areas of Opportunity:

There is an opportunity for growth related to reviewing performance-based data. The Instructional Leadership Team currently reviews formative assessment data, End-of-Unit data, and Map data but does not review performance-based data. Next year performance-based data will be monitored regularly.

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Initiatives/Actions:​

• In order to assist students in taking ownership of their learning, 3rd-5th grade students set goals prior to each PBL and review their actual progress after the PBL Showcase.

• Students are required to keep a PBL Journal to capture their thinking during the engineering design process and use it as a reflective tool after completing the PBL.

• Performance-based assessments allow teachers to gain deeper insight into how well scholars have mastered science and math learning targets; they also give scholars insight into what they understand themselves.