Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning

Chapter 5Performance Assessment: The State of the Art^a

Suzanne Lane

This chapter addresses design, scoring, and psychometric advances in performance assessments that allow for the evaluation of twenty-first century skills. Although I discuss performance assessments for classroom purposes, the focus of this chapter is on the use of performance assessments in large-scale assessment programs. I consider advances in the integration of cognitive theories of learning and measurement models with assessment design, scoring, and interpretation.

The chapter begins with a discussion of advances in the design of performance assessments, including a description of the important learning outcomes that can be assessed by performance assessments, and not ...