Introduction to Performance Assessments

Time: 1:30 - 3:00pm EDT

Location: Virtual

Description: This is the first of two REL Appalachia webinars on selecting, enhancing, and implementing performance assessments. Facilitators will summarize evidence-based research related to using performance assessments and introduce participants to the Virginia Quality Criteria Review Tool for Performance Assessments. Participants will also learn about coaching materials developed by REL Appalachia to help Virginia science teachers use the Criteria Tool when they administered their own performance assessments in the fall of 2019.

Partnership or Research Alliance: Implementing High-Quality Performance Assessment in Science

Audience: The primary audience for this webinar will be classroom educators, in addition to district science coordinators and state-level education agency personnel.

Speakers:

• Emma Pellerin, REL Appalachia, SRI International
• Carmen Araoz, REL Appalachia, SRI International
• Kori Hamilton Biagas, REL Appalachia, SRI International
• Jessica Bailey, REL Appalachia, Education Development Center
• Anne Petersen, Virginia Department of Education
• Carrie Roop, Prince William County Public Schools
• Erin Lowery, Prince William County Public Schools