Develop Performance Assessments that Can Be Used in Classrooms, Buildings, or Districts. Engaging Students Through Performance Assessment: Creating Performance Tasks to Monitor Student Learning demystifies performance assessments in the world of assessments. Readers will learn what standards-based performance assessments are, why they should be included in an assessment system, how to create them, how to score them, and how to use the results to improve instruction and student learning. This book incudes a valuable appendix containing resources and documents to support the creation of standards-based performance assessments. Engaging Students Through Performance Assessment includes sections on: Getting Started with Performance Assessments Balanced Assessment Systems Creating a Standards-Based Performance Assessment Creating a Performance Assessment: Ten Steps to Success Selecting an Assessment Topic/Unit of Study Identifying Matching Priority and Supporting Standards "Unwrapping" the Priority and Supporting Standards and Creating a Graphic Organizer Determining the Big Ideas Writing Essential Questions Designing Performance Tasks Developing Performance Tasks Identifying Interdisciplinary Standards Creating Engaging Scenarios Developing Scoring Guides (Rubrics) Implementation of Performance Assessments Performance Assessments and Data Teams Performance Tasks Implementation of Performance Assessments Appendices Performance Assessment Scoring Guide Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Performance Assessment Roles, Products, and Performances Performance Assessment Samples with additional online resources The Leadership and Learning CenterTM The Leadership and Learning Center provides world-class professional development services, cutting-edge research, and innovative solutions for educators and school leaders who serve students from pre-kindergarten through college. The Center has worked in all fifty states and every Canadian province, as well as Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. The Center works with public school systems, as well as religious and secular independent schools, charter schools, community colleges, technical schools, universities, state departments of education, national ministries of education, and international education associations. Center Professional Development Associates are experienced superintendents, principals, administrators, and educators who provide comprehensive practices for clients in the areas of standards, assessment, instruction, accountability, data analysis, and leadership. Book jacket.