The authors focus on tools for meaningful learning and assessment, which promote deep transfer of knowledge, skills, and understandings to the real world. You’ll learn how to:
· Apply practical and proven design tools to create rich learning experiences, authentic project-based learning (PBL) opportunities, and performance-based assessments (PBA) that address both academic and 21st century skills.
· Design performance tasks and projects that offer students voice and choice.
· Develop and use criterion-based evaluation tools and rubrics for assessment, including student and peer-based assessment.
· Use performance-based instructional strategies to prepare students for authentic application.
· Differentiate tasks and projects for all students, including those needing additional support or challenge.
· Effectively manage the logistics of a performance-based classroom.
· Develop and extend the performance-based approach to curriculum at the program, school, and district levels.
Reviewed by Carol Campbell, PhD
Vice President for Education
Southwestern Union Conference
Author: Pete Nelson, with a preface by Hunter Scott (the 11-year-old who inspired the book and whose research informs the book)
