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Competency-based education requires students to demonstrate their skills and knowledge at deeper levels with an increased ability to apply what they know. Understanding how to create the environments that allow students to learn, demonstrate and apply includes the ability to support student agency, provide competency-based formative assessment, and design and implement quality performance tasks. This workshop will guide educators new to this process with a flexible framework and tools to use in designing performance learning and assessment environments that produce high quality evidence of this deeper learning within real world contexts.
This workshop will explicate the process of performance learning and assessment from the beginning, and is designed for those who are new or fairly new to this process. Implementing Performance Learning and Assessment in the classroom is more than administering a hands-on task and relying on students’ innate engagement to bring to that “ah-ha!” moment of deeper understanding. Quality performance learning and assessment is carefully thought-out from the beginning starting with the competencies, standards, and deeper understandings that the students will gain and only then building a clear bridge that will allow them to access that learning.
Participants will learn the role of performance assessment in a competency-based learning system, explore performance assessment design and discuss formative practices and instructional supports, practice collaborative practices and protocols to bring back to the participants’ learning environments. Participants will walk away with ideas for a performance assessment to implement in their own learning environment.
