EDPD 519

Performance Assessment for Deeper Learning in a Competency-Based System

This course module assumes that you already have a strong foundation in key concepts and skills related to performance assessment and formative assessment. We'll build on your understanding and skill to ensure that we're designing performance assessments and supporting instruction to capture deeper learning. Assessing students' ability to demonstrate key academic skills and content is important, but what about key workforce skills and dispositions such as collaboration, communication, creativity, and self-direction? In this module we'll make the case for developing integrative performance tasks that capture student learning of academic skills, academic content, and essential skills and dispositions. Then we'll provide tools and activities to help you design integrative assessments and supporting instruction and formative assessments.

Units: 3.0