Concluding this third volume of the series are four collections of overviews of Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks (often referred to as performance assessments) in English language arts, math, science, and history/social studies. For each of the four content areas, the examples are sequenced by grade levels, from elementary through high school. Each example includes the name of the educators’ school district, the title of the unit of study, the motivational purpose (scenario) educators used to introduce the tasks to students, and the synopses or short descriptions of the related tasks, several with details specific to the set of tasks. Representative of the information and success data about performance assessments presented in Chapter 17, these educator-created collections illustrate why these Standards-Aligned Learning Tasks are truly “timeless” in both their relevancy and their positive impact on student learning.

STANDARDS-ALIGNED STUDENT LEARNING TASKS