A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Foreign Languages » (1st Edition)

CONTENTS

1. Why Use Performance Assessments?
What is an Assessment - Incorporating Brain Research into assessment - What is an Authentic Assessment
2. Choosing and Writing a Performance Assessment and its Rubric
Types of rubrics: Holistic - Analytical - Checklist - Rating scale - What makes a good rubric?
3. Oral Assessments
Holistic Scoring - Analytical rubrics - Teaching students to be better oral performers - Converting Points to Letter Grades - Interviews - Grading group behavior in class - Appealing to multiple learning styles - Telling stories (TPRS) - Conversations - Telling stories (videotaped) - Oral exam, short answer - Oral exams, in pairs or alone - Oral presentation rubric - Phone message
4. Written Assessments
Brainstorming - Rough drafts - Using feedback - Holistic rubric - Point-based rubric - Journal writing - Name poems - Personalized essay
5. Reading Assessments
Self-assessment - Teacher assessment - Organizing information that is read - Scaffolding - Storyboard - Time line - Creative activities to show understanding of what is read
6. Listening Proficiency Assessments
Constructing a listening activity - Using tapes - Using manipulatives - Using paired activities - Faces - Maps - Grading
7. Strategies for Keeping Assessments Manageable
Make sure they know what you want - Assess using a """"cloze"""" or random method - Make editing a part of any performance - Hold students responsible for improvement - Give students choices - Keep records of assessments - Self-taping to increase fluency
8. Alternative Forms of Assessment
K-W-L-U Sheets - Performance portfolios - Projects - Giving choices - Incorporating technology - Individual responsibility - Team responsibility - Self-assessment - Using mentoring in the classroom - Sample alternative assessmentsBibliography