The Power of Performance Assessments

The Power of Performance Assessments

Performance assessment is structured in a way that encourages deeper engagement by eliciting elaboration, questioning, synthesis, and justification. Performance Assessment and Student Learning With advancements in educational technology and the desire to measure...
The Importance of Evaluating Student Writing

The Importance of Evaluating Student Writing

Daisy Vickers began her career in performance assessment after teaching both high school and college English. In her first job with Harcourt, she learned the ropes as a scorer and scoring supervisor. In her second scoring season, she joined Measurement Incorporated...
The Power of Performance Assessment – Part 2

The Power of Performance Assessment – Part 2

MZD presents the second in a series of articles on the Power of Performance Assessments. For each email, we will highlight a segment from our published white paper that features the benefits of performance assessments. This week our focus is on how performance...