If you’re a teacher in a state that will take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced common-core-aligned assessments next spring, you know by now that the performance tasks for math are going to be hard—likely ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is “performance assessment” and how and why should I use it with students? Assessment is an obvious key part of our work as educators. There are many different ...

The digital format for this year’s Badger Exam isn’t the only new testing concept that students and teachers must adjust to. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a longer, more ...

A restricted-response assessment performance task is a teaching tool. Corporations and some smaller companies use this specifically for training new employees or updating skills. Assessment tools for ...