Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project

The objective of this pilot project is to develop and pilot test a learning and assessment task assessment system (defined as the Ohio performance task dyad system) for elementary and high school students. The intended outcome of the pilot is to end up with a suite of field-tested performance tasks that can be used in classrooms for both formative and summative assessment purposes and a system for developing, scoring, and delivering of both the tasks and the associated professional development that is sustained by a source independent of the State.
 
Through Race to the Top funds, the Ohio Department of Education and Measured Progress are building on what was accomplished in the first phase of OPAPP. The tasks in the dyad system being used in this second phase of the pilot project align to the Common Core State Standards for ELA and mathematics, as well as Ohio's New Revised State Standards in Science, Social Studies and Career Technical Pathways, and is being informed by the types of performance tasks that the two national assessment consortia (PARCC and SBAC) are planning to use in their assessment systems.
 
The work of this phase of OPAPP includes recruiting pilot schools, providing professional development on formative instructional strategies, pilot-testing an online task delivery system, field-testing the dyad model of performance tasks, pilot-testing two scoring systems (moderation panels and individual teacher scoring), and training teachers to write performance tasks and use a generalized rubric to guide student feedback.