There are a number of resources available online at Google Books that can help teachers use performance assessments and rubrics. GradePad lets you create your own performance assessment rubrics on your iPhone or iPod touch and score those observations and share them with other teachers, your students, and even parents.
Here are just a few of the resources we found online:
Ten Things New Teachers Need to Succeed By Robin Fogarty (2007)
I love what he says in his chapter on Performance Assessment. “Rubrics are our new best friend.” He says the essence of authentic assessment is an instructional method that dictates performance tasks and authentic evidence. An analogy, he says, that might look like this:
Evidence : Judgement :: Performance task : Rubric
Understanding and using reading assessment, K-12 By Peter Afflerbach (2007)
The Essentials of World Languages, Grades K-12 By Janis Jensen, Paul Sandrock, John Franklin (2007)
Teaching the Best Practice Way By Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar (2005)
Rubrics for assessing student achievement in science, grades K-12
Renaissance in the classroom By Gail E. Burnaford, Arnold Aprill, Cynthia Weiss (2001)
Formative Assessment Strategies for Enhanced Learning in Science, K-8 By Elizabeth Hammerman (2008)