TOOL #4 | reDESIGN’S RIGOR TOOLKIT
High-quality Performance Assessments
How can we provide learners with recursive skill and knowledge-building opportunities in the context of authentic, meaningful tasks? How do we ensure assessments are both rigorous enough and scaffolded enough to ensure every learner can achieve desired outcomes? reDesign’s performance assessment suite includes an adaptable set of performance tasks that can be used across disciplines. This unique set of transferable “formative tasks” is designed to create a visible and flexible pathway for each learner, enable timely feedback and revision opportunities, and help learners see and practice the processes that are essential to the creation of any product, project, or creative endeavor.
Why this? Performance assessments are both the ends and the means of relevant and rigorous learning: done well, they situate skill and knowledge development in a real-world context that can foster a sense of purpose and relevance for learners, and they serve as an important form of evidence for the development of high-order thinking, interpersonal and collaboration skills.