What Is Ela Performance Task

Smarter Balanced ELA/Literacy performance tasks allow the evaluation of higher order skills, asking students to read multiple informational texts and use evidence from those texts to produce a developed piece of writing.

What are examples of performance tasks?

While any performance by a learner might be considered a performance task (e.g., tying a shoe or drawing a picture), it is useful to distinguish between the application of specific and discrete skills (e.g., dribbling a basketball) from genuine performance in context (e.g., playing the game of basketball in which …

How do you write a performance task?

1. Step 1: Unpack the performance expectation. The first step of designing a performance task is to unpack the performance expectation (PE). …
2. Step 2: Identify a rich and authentic phenomenon. …
3. Step 3: Develop prompts. …
4. Step 4: Create scoring guides. …
5. Step 5: Pilot, score, and revise.