Who Uses PALS?
PALS is a two-tiered on-line performance assessment resource library
composed of performance assessment tasks for elementary, middle,
and secondary levels. The first tier is for use by teachers and
professional development organizations. The second tier is
a password-protected, secure Accountability Pool of science performance
assessments for use by state assessment programs and systemic
reforms.
PALS uses technology to efficiently archive numerous assessments
for ready browsing by teachers and goes beyond mere storage
of assessments to support cross-links with standards, tasks, scoring
criteria, and annotated student work. These resources can be shared
by assessment programs, allowing them to have access to a large
pool of performance assessments to use or to adapt for their testing
administrations. Teachers can administer the tasks as part of their
classroom assessments, adapt them or use them as models for developing
their own investigations, and contribute their adaptations to the
resource bank for other teachers to use.
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