Team Members: Eric Hilton, Sharon Bae, Billy Weldon, Jaime Green, Kathryn Tribendis, Stefanie Maruszewski, Patrick Swope, Amanda Brooks (student teacher)

Key Concepts: Performance assessment is assessment based on observation and judgement.  Performance assessment is well suited to evaluating reasoning, skill, and product learning targets. page 191

The 4 traits of a rubric are content, clarity, practicality, and teaching quality/fairness.  page 202-203-Figure 7.3

6 Steps for developing a rubric: 1) establish a knowledge base 2) gather samples of student work 3) sort by high/low quality 4) cluster features by traits 5) illustrate examples of each level 6) revise rubric as it is used.  page 244 (paragraph 4)

Rubrics allow students to be involved in the learning process and allows the teachers to teach the nature of quality work.  Portfolios allow students to be involved in their own assessment, which makes them feel like have control over their learning and increases motivation. page 199 (paragraph 3)

Food for Thought: How do we eliminate bias?