Example #1 Performance Assessment
Performance Assessment for Olivia Saves the Circus
This performance assessment uses oral language as a means of demonstrating understanding and will function as the way in which progress is monitored and recorded on instructional logs.
Task: Student will identify and clarify the main point the author wants readers to concentrate on instead of focusing solely on small details.
Specific Example: Olivia lets her imagination run wild. She is a story teller and exaggerates the truth to her classmates about saving the circus, but when her mom asks her about her day, Olivia doesn’t tell her mom about the stories she has told at school.
Criteria: Evaluate performance on task based on analysis of elements of task, e.g. description of the difference between the pictures and words, explain character’s defining characteristics, and identify the key event in the story.
Specific Example:
1. Describe what the pictures are telling the reader versus what the words are telling the reader (example: The words are saying Olivia is “a big help to
her mother, but the picture is saying Olivia made a big mess that her mother wouldn’t like).
2. Explain main character’s defining characteristics (example: Olivia loves telling stories, but doesn’t always tell the truth).
3. Identify which particular event is significant in the story (example: Olivia went to a circus and was the performer or trainer for each part of the
circus because all of the performers were sick).
This performance assessment uses oral language as a means of demonstrating understanding and will function as the way in which progress is monitored and recorded on instructional logs.
Task: Student will identify and clarify the main point the author wants readers to concentrate on instead of focusing solely on small details.
Specific Example: Olivia lets her imagination run wild. She is a story teller and exaggerates the truth to her classmates about saving the circus, but when her mom asks her about her day, Olivia doesn’t tell her mom about the stories she has told at school.
Criteria: Evaluate performance on task based on analysis of elements of task, e.g. description of the difference between the pictures and words, explain character’s defining characteristics, and identify the key event in the story.
Specific Example:
1. Describe what the pictures are telling the reader versus what the words are telling the reader (example: The words are saying Olivia is “a big help to
her mother, but the picture is saying Olivia made a big mess that her mother wouldn’t like).
2. Explain main character’s defining characteristics (example: Olivia loves telling stories, but doesn’t always tell the truth).
3. Identify which particular event is significant in the story (example: Olivia went to a circus and was the performer or trainer for each part of the
circus because all of the performers were sick).