Executive Summary: Enriching New Hampshire's Assessment System Through Quality Performance Assessment

This executive summary outlines how New Hampshire will integrate performance assessments into its state assessment and accountability systems.

The proposed performance assessment system will be based on:

1. competencies that provide state-defined learning expectations,

2. a focus on technical quality to ensure that the performance tasks that are designed and implemented at the local and state levels, and

3. a robust professional development model that provides support to educators in designing, implementing, and reliably scoring quality performance tasks.