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In her Topic of the Week article, Nicole Naditz advocates for standards-based grading and performance assessments as an alternative to point-based assessment. If you would like more information on standards-based grading, Nicole recommends you check out these educators: Myron Dueck, Tom Schimmer, Jan Chappuis, and Rick Wormeli (books and videos).

Here are some great resources for learning about and finding examples of Integrated Performance Assessments.

National Board Certified French teacher Lisa Shepard wrote an InterCom article breaking down the process of creating an IPA into steps: http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/19761
Mrs. Shepard often posts her own IPA’s to her blog, Madame’s musings. Find all of her IPA-related posts here: http://madameshepard.com/?cat=23

Kathy Shelton, World Language Education Program Specialist for the Ohio Department of Education, wrote an InterCom article focusing especially on assessing listening comprehension using authentic resources: http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/18854
The Ohio Department of Education has a wealth of IPA-related resources. Go to http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Ohios-Learning-Standards/Foreign-Language/World-Languages-Model-Curriculum/World-Languages-Model-Curriculum-Framework/Instructional-Strategies and scroll down to “Assessment and Rubrics” for a list of available documents, which include background information on IPA’s, many examples of IPA’s, and a scoring rubric that works well with IPA’s.

Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell also has a popular rubric that works well with performance assessment on her Musicuentos blog: http://musicuentos.com/2015/08/rubric-201/

Our sister LRC the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) has a nice self-paced module about using IPA’s as part of the backward design curriculum development process: http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/vac/CreateUnit/p_2.html
If you do content-based instruction (CBI), you’ll also be interested in this site about adapting IPA’s for CBI: http://carla.acad.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/assessment/ipa/index.html

For more information about implemting IPA’s, you can purchase ACTFL’s book: http://www.actfl.org/publications/books-and-brochures/implementing-integrated-performance-assessment

And finally, here are some more examples of IPA’s:  http://swcolt2011.wikispaces.com/IPA+examples and http://swcolt2011.wikispaces.com/IPA+examples-Andrea+Henderson