This issue is an online supplement to VUE 46, which addressed the topic of performance assessment – a personalized and rigorous alternative to standardized testing that allows teachers to build on individual students’ strengths and foster more equitable learning outcomes.
VUE 47 adds additional current materials, offers opportunities for additional voices, and provides more examples of performance assessment. Because performance assessment is an active national conversation, the work continues; following VUE 46’s publication, important national conferences and other milestones occurred that we’re able to share here. This issue also provides perspectives from students, educators, researchers, and policymakers.
It includes "Seizing the Opportunity for Performance Assessment: Resources and State Perspectives", written by collaborators from the CCSO, SCALE and the Colorado Education Intiative. This article places the Performance Assessment Resource Bank (PARB) in the context of state and local policy trends.