In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Elizabeth Marquez explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students' deeper understanding of mathematical concepts at the middle school level.

Charlotte Danielson is an educational consultant now based in San Francisco, California. She has taught at all levels from kindergarten through college, and has worked as an administrator, a curriculum director, and a staff developer.

Elizabeth (Liz) Marquez is a mathematics assessment specialist at Educational Testing Service. She has taught mathematics in both middle and high school. Liz is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching and the Princeton University Prize for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching.

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Meet the Authors

Foreword by Jay McTighe

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: What Is Performance Assessment?

Chapter 2: Why Use Performance Assessment?

Chapter 3: Making an Evaluation Plan

Chapter 4: Understanding Quality Performance Tasks

Chapter 5: Creating and Adapting Performance Tasks

Chapter 6: Using Rubrics to Evaluate Complex Performance

Chapter 7: Creating and Adapting Rubrics

Chapter 8: Middle School Mathematics Performance Tasks