In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Pia Hansen explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students' deeper understanding of mathematical concepts at the early elementary 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.

Pia Hansen has been a classroom teacher for twenty-seven years, and is currently the director of Professional Development for the Math Learning Center.

1. Introduction

2. Why Performance Assessment?

3. Making an Evaluation Plan

4. Evaluating Complex Performance

5. Creating a Performance Task

6. Creating a Rubric

7. Adapting Existing Performance Tasks and Rubrics

8. Mathematics Performance Tasks