Dr. Karin Hess

CBE Competencies and Performance Task Development

Tools for Developing Competencies & Performance Scales (Deeper Competency-Based Learning, Hess, Colby & Joseph, 2020)

• CBE Tool 1A

• CBE Tool 3

• CBE Tool 5 (with ELA example)

• CBE tool 5 - Analyze a competency - blank template

• CBE Tool 6

• CBE tool 6 Dev Performance Scale blank

Guidelines for Task and Rubric Development (A Local Assessment Toolkit to Promote Deeper Learning, Hess, 2018)

• Hess Cognitive  Rigor Matrices (DOK examples for 8 different content domains)

• STARS Planning Template - Use for developing simulation/role-play tasks

• Hess Tool 20 - Use for developing performance assessment tasks

• Hess Tool 9 - Use to plan or give feedback to "validate" a peer's performance task; includes UDL criteria

• Hess Tool 9A - Use to plan or give feedback to "validate" a peer's performance task or assessment

• Hess Tool 10 - Use to give feedback on a peer's assessment (using notes from Tool9 or 9A)

• Hess Tool #11 - Use to develop or analyze rubrics

• Hess Assessment System Blueprint - Use to map all major course assessments to competencies

CTE Performance Task Examples & Ideas to Spark Your Thinking

• Student-Created Videos - Tutorials and Testimonials Showing Evidence of Personalized Learning

  • KID TOOLS Planning: Writing a Treatment, Storyboarding, ​Planning a Structured Micro Lesson/Tutorial Video

  • KID TOOLS 6-Word Memoirs - Use to tell about self, others, events, characters, "how to" processes, demo key principles, etc.

  • What's the Story? (See highlighted links to resources); Introductory Lesson; and Process Steps- Use to share a personal perspective or reflection on "life" events. 

• PBL

• Expeditionary Learning

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• Health Sciences/Biology - KID TOOL Survivor - Choose a patient profile, analyze symptoms, and propose a treatment

• STEM/Health Sciences Assessments (University of Buffalo) - Using Case Studies

  • ---New Ways to Breathe- Cystic Fibrosis and Gene Therapy

  • ---Antibiotic Resistance in a Russian Prison - Playing with the Spread of Tuberculosis

• The Food Truck - Ideas for use in culinary courses (design theme-based menus), historical (time capsule) , or literary (theme, time/place, character, etc.) for Career Pathways (Blog - Spark Creativity (nowsparkcreativity.com)

• Theater/Film Production - Theory and Practice (Concord Regional Tech Ctr)

• Graphic Design Assessment Examples (Concord Regional Tech Ctr)

  • Theory and Practice Evidence for Career Pathways​

  • Peer- and Self- Assessment example

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Rubric Examples & Ideas for Wording 

KID TOOLS Self-Direction K-12 Rubrics (Jobs for the Future/JFF BEST Toolkit)

RI Applied Learning (Critical thinking, Problem solving, Research, Communication, & Reflection) - sample performance indicators​

Vermont rubric example - Problem Solving performance indicators

 

Instructional/Planning Resources (Hess, Rigor by Design, 2022 pub. date)

Lesson & unit Planning with DOK Levels - interactive version with elementary math example

KID TOOL Student Planning Worksheet with DOK Levels - Editable version

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Additional CBE Resources

EPIC Framework - research-based progressions for essential skills and dispositions - Self-Direction, Collaboration, Creativity, Communication

Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed [iNACOL & CompetencyWorks]

Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education

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