Performance assessments are associated with positive instructional changes, student skill development, engagement, and complex conceptual understanding¶

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q2 i? A body of research from the 1990s found that performance assessments produced positive instructional changes, increased student skill development, engagement and postsecondary success, and strengthened complex conceptual understandings. → Cook-Harvey 2016

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Cook-Harvey 2016¶

Cook-Harvey, C.M., Darling-Hammond, L., Lam, L., Mercer, C., & Roc, M. (2016). Equity and ESSA: Leveraging Educational Opportunity Through the Every Student Succeeds Act. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. http://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/equity-essa

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The report attributes these findings to a substantial body of research on 1990s statewide performance assessment systems, citing Koretz et al., Matthews, Spalding and Cummins, Foote, and Chung & Baker; the report narrates these studies without printing effect sizes.

"Researchers have found that the use of performance assessments can produce positive instructional changes in classrooms (Koretz et al., 1996; Matthews, 1995); increase student skill development (Spalding and Cummins, 1998); increase student engagement and postsecondary success (Foote, 2005); and strengthen complex conceptual understandings (Chung & Baker, 2003)."

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