Problems, Projects and Performance Tasks

Linda Faulk and Marcella Cook

What makes a good performance assessment?

• Aligned to standards• Authentic/Real World scenario• Gives students choices/options• Opportunity to explain/discuss/do• Collaboration and/or present • Multiple correct answers or multiple ways to determine

answers• Getting the right answer not the goal--its the journey.• A vehicle for learning, not necessarily the culmination of what

has been learned.

Bloom's Revised for Common Core

Types of Performance AssessmentsStand alone Task• Normally a one time constructed

response which is finished in one class periods

• Short and very focused on a single topic or problem.

• One or two learning targets

Constructed Response• One problem or a multi-part problem, • part of longer exam • Completed in one or two periods,• Students given data, text and asked to

calculate or respond to data • Limited student decision or choice• Limited instructional support

Complex Project• Multiple standards covered• Long Term, month or quarter• May be group/collaborative• Curriculum embedded over a single or

several units.• Needs a rubric or scoring system• Range of possible answers• Variety of Student formats

• Multiple standards covered• Longer period of time, 1-2 weeks• May have collaborative elements• Curriculum embedded over a single or

several units.• Needs a rubric or scoring system• Multiple student decisions,• Multiple outcomes

Curriculum Embedded Task

How do I grade or score?

Type of Assignment• Performance/Presentation:focus on correct answer or knowledge

• Task specific/short response,allows for partial credit

• Project/long term, many elements to task, writing component

Types of scoring system• Checklist

• Point System

• Rubrics

Identify your purpose and assignment

The Big Burger

As you have seen Mally’s has an absurd 150-pound burger. On this burger is: 300 slices of cheese 8 pounds of tomatoes 10 pounds of pickles 10 pounds of onions 5 pounds of bacon 10 pounds of lettuce How much of each topping do you need for a 3 pound burger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QfP2BbUWBw

The Problem: How many toppings do you need?

The High Cost of College

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GTa_swC-OE

There is 1 Trillion dollars in loan debt. The average student loan debt grew by 10% in 2013. Defaults on students loans highest in 20 years (10%). Senior Citizens alone owe 18 billion in student loans.

Can you afford to go to college? How will you pay for it. In this task, you will find your college of choice, determine the annual costs, and calculate the college loans you will incur.

Water Shortage• The problem: Leaky Faucet• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60foq0Px7F0

A leaky faucet drips at the rate of 1 drip every 3 seconds, and 165 drips will fill one eight-ounce cup. How many gallons of wasted water will this be on one 30-day billing cycle? Explain your answer and your thinking. (One gallon holds 16 cups.)

TP the Empire State Building

• Over 17 billion toilet paper tubes are thrown away each year. That’s enough to fill the Empire State Building. Twice.

• How many will it take to fill this room?

The Problem: How many will fit in this room?

http://www.scottbrand.com/products/toilet-paper/tubefree

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7l9E/scott-brand-naturals-tube-free-toss-the-tube-for-good

Stock Market Master

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RQx8ww3vg

It is a powerful link to not only mathematics but also literacy to read the Wall Street Journal on a daily basis. Learning about stocks requires learning about industry and the economy as well.

Is it Fair?

Your carnival committee wants to have a booth with a big wheel. If people pay $1.00 to pick a color and spin the wheel, how much can they expect to make from the booth if 100 people play?

Water Fountain• Model parabola using Geogebra and pictures

of water fountains, bridges, arch. Students load the pictures and then model the curves in either vertex form or using the roots.

Are You the One?

• If your perfect match was standing right in front of you, would you know?Official promo for show

10 men and 10 women have been chosen. They are “perfect matches” romantically to each other. There are 10 couples to match up and they have 10 tries to do it, once each week. If they match up, then they share one million dollars. Will they win or not?

Take Me Out to the Ballgamehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscED3psy_U

Are you Safe: Mathematics in a baseball game. Can you determine when the runner will be out?

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