Science Performance Assessment
and Instruction
With users in 50 states and 25 countries, Exemplars has been the leader in performance assessment and instruction as well as formative assessment for 15 years.
Exemplars provides standards-based performance tasks for schools, districts and teachers in Science. Our investigations are designed to improve assessment and instruction while meeting standards.
Rubrics and anchor papers (hallmarks of Exemplars) provide both teachers and administrators with a way of assessing students' science-process and communication skills. The classroom-tested, real-world investigations are also used for the purpose of instruction and professional development.
Exemplars inquiry-based tasks are aligned to state and national standards and can be easily integrated into your existing curriculum.
Material includes the following:
- Performance tasks and context for assignments
- A subject-specific rubric as well as task-specific rubrics
- Annotated student anchor papers at four levels of performance
- Interdisciplinary links and teacher notes for assessment and instruction
- Possible solutions
- Suggestions on how students might carry out the task
- Questions to move students forward
- Alignments with math concepts, state and national standards, leading science kits and children's literature
- Estimated time required for each task
Our goal is to provide teachers with the fundamental tools to integrate successful performance-based assessment and instruction in a user-friendly way. Doing so enables teachers to help students reach higher levels of achievement and gain greater understanding, meeting state and national standards.
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"The level and complexity of Exemplars has enabled our students to gain exposure to more complex problems ...at the youngest grade levels, students are solving multi-step problems, and at all grade levels the subjects and "real-life" feel of the problems gives students a natural desire to persevere, since the situations presented seem plausible."
J. Francisco
Principal
Berkeley, MA |
