Basing assessment on standards

1. Basing Assessment on
Standards

2. • Starting with the end goals in mind
• Creating purposeful tasks
• Balancing assessments
Focusing Standards-based
Instruction

3. • Determine what you want the students to be able to do with
the target language.
• Consult the standards and the district’s curriculum.
• Identify appropriate learning scenarios, themes, and content.
• Map out and design an assessment using the IPA template.
• Plan the instructional activities.
Steps to Designing a Standard Based
Lesson.

4. • Authentic, performance based, based on three modes of
communication, integrated.
• The cyclical approach of performance assessment units are:
– Interpretative Communication phase
– Interpersonal Communication phase and
– Presentational Communication phase. (see pg. 7 for a detail description)
Characteristics of an IPA