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The Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA): Connecting Assessment to Instruction and Learning
Author(s) -
AdairHauck Bonnie,
Glisan Eileen W.,
Koda Keiko,
Swender Elvira B.,
Sandrock Paul
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02894.x
Subject(s) - authentic assessment , psychology , standards based assessment , mathematics education , sample (material) , alternative assessment , perception , pedagogy , educational assessment , medical education , engineering management , engineering , curriculum , medicine , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience
This article reports on Beyond the OPI: Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) Design Project, a three‐year (1997–2000) research initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies Program. The primary goal of the project was to develop an integrated skills assessment prototype that would measure students' progress towards the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (National Standards, 1999, 2006). A second goal of the project was to use the assessment prototype as a catalyst for curricular and pedagogical reform. This paper presents the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) prototype, illustrates a sample IPA, and discusses how classroom‐based research on the IPA demonstrated the washback effect of integrated performance‐based assessment on teachers' perceptions regarding their instructional practices.