Project-Based Learning/ Performance

Project-Based Learning/
Performance-Based
Assessment
Charlottesville City Schools
School Board Presentation
April 2, 2015
Strategic Plan Update 1.1.1
Project-Based Learning “a systematic teaching method that engages students in
learning important knowledge and 21st century skills
through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process
structured around complex, authentic questions and
carefully designed products and learning tasks.”
Buck Institute for Education
PBL - Division Expectations
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Schools are implementing PBL plans as refined last school year based on
feedback from division coordinators
Legislative Mandate – House Bill 930 and Senate Bill 306 – Eliminated
some SOL tests and requires each local school board to annually certify
that it has provided instruction and administered an alternative
assessment, consistent with VDOE guidelines.
We have worked with VSUP (Virginia School University Partnership) to
develop assessments for grade 3 History and Science and US History to
1865 and 1865 to the present
PBL and Assessment for Learning
● Assessment for learning recognizes the mutuallysupportive relationship between instruction and
assessment.
● Classroom assessment should reflect and promote
good instruction.
● Project-based learning and performance-based
assessment represent a set of strategies for learning
through the performance of tasks that are meaningful
and engaging for students.
Performance-Based Assessment:
Key Questions for Planning
1. Learning Outcomes
What do we want students to understand and be able to do?
2. Purpose(s) for Assessment
Why are we assessing and how will the assessment information be used?
3. Audience(s) for Assessment
For whom are the assessment results intended?
The primary purpose of classroom assessment is to
Inform teaching and improve learning, not to sort and
select or justify a grade.
Performance Based Assessments in
Social Studies
Grades 3, 6 and 7 lead the way!
K-3 Standards Assessed in Grade 3
Using the My Monticello curriculum, grade 3 teachers refined
the existing task and created a rubric. The annual art show
celebrated their responses! Writing skills emphasized along
with historical thinking skills, creativity, student choice and
connecting past and present.
Other grade 3 PBAs piloted with VSUP
USI and USII at Walker / Buford developed original tasks
with rubrics, and piloted others from VSUP
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Historical Thinking Skills
Analysis of primary
sources
Research and writing
skills emphasized
Student choice/voice
National History Day
projects - authentic
audience & academic
competition
Moving forward...
● Continue to develop performance assessments in
conjunction with new Standards of Learning
● Major changes coming in 2016 with emphasis on Historical
Thinking Skills over rote memorization of facts, spatial
thinking using geographic concepts
● Goal is to embed the AVID WICOR strategies into all new
PBAs
e-Portfolios
Strategic Plan Update 1.2.2
● “…a curated collection of digital artifacts representing
hard work, creativity, and collaboration.”
● “…organized compilation of artifacts that demonstrate
knowledge, skills, values, or achievement that articulate
the relevance, credibility, and meaning of presented
artifacts.”
Cooper and Love (2007)
e-Portfolios
● Increase Student Engagement
○ Students become authors and publishers of content and are
more likely to reflect on the content they create and share.
● Increase Student Participation
○ By expanding the walls of the classroom, the learning
becomes more personal and authentic encouraging active
student participation.
● Increase Student Digital Citizenship
○ Creating, managing, and representing oneself in a positive
manner on the web is an essential understanding.
Steps in Progress
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Level 1 – Digitize and upload
Level 2 – Student artifact collection
Level 3 – Personal ePortfolio generation
Level 4 – Classroom teacher ePortfolio
generation
Moving forward...
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Continue to refine ePortfolio implementation
Monitor grade-level benchmarks
Types and number of artifacts
Specifications for the grade level
Continue training for ePortfolio development