Guide to Written Performance Assessments

  STEP 1: Determine Written Performance Assessment Type and Content

Written Performance Assessments are an individual, written performance assessment. It assesses written communication and knowledge and thinking. Embedded in a project or PrBL unit, as a benchmark or an individual final product. At the early elementary level, may include drawing/dictating/invented spelling.  To start, think about the important content and literacy skills you'd like to assess.  

Secondary teachers: Then determine if this Written Performance Assessment is a College Ready Assessment.  If it's a CRA, it aligns with two of our college readiness aligned rubrics: the appropriate Knowledge and Thinking rubric and Written Communication. If it doesn't elicit all the outcomes on those the rubrics, then it's not a CRA.

  STEP 2 : Create a Task Prompt

  STEP 3: Determine Targeted Skills Using Rubrics

Determine which skills you'll focus on in your scaffolding and/or assessment, using either the appropriate NTN rubrics (for schools using NTN Learning Outcomes) or appropriate rubrics used by your school. 

NTN Learning Outcome Rubrics

   STEP 4: Plan The Scaffolding

Scaffolding Literacy: Deep Dive (lists all literacy scaffolding resources)

Assessing Writing Tips and Tricks resource

  Step 5: Assess Task and Scaffolding Quality

 Assess the quality of your task and scaffolding using the Task Quality Checklist