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