This book features 68 performance tasks and rubrics, all designed to motivate and engage your students. Also included are samples of student work to help you apply the rubrics and develop your grading and scoring skills. The performance assessments in this book were contributed by teachers like you from all over the country and they include:
- open-ended and extended response exercises
- projects and portfolios
- behavioral assessments (skits, debates, discussions, etc.)
- authentic assessments
- and student self-assessments, in addition to those administered by teachers.

About the Author
Deborah Blaz, a French teacher at Angola High School in Angola, Indiana, is a native of St. Charles, Illinois. She received her B.A. in French and German from Illinois State University, a diplome from the Universite de Grenoble in Grenoble, France, and, in 1974, an M.A. in French from the University of Kentucky. Ms. Blaz has taught French and English to grades 7 through 12 for the past 20 years in Indiana. Ms. Blaz is the author of two best selling reference books, The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Active Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block. She has frequently presented on successful teaching strategies at national conferences, universities, and high schools. A recipient of the Project E Excellence in Education award for the year 2000, she was also named Indiana's French Teacher of the Year by the Indiana chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (IAATF) in 1998, and was named to the All-USA Teacher team, Honorable Mention, by USA Today in 1996. She may be contacted at Angola High School, 755 100 E, Angola, IN 46703.


Book Information
ISBN 9781930556065
Author Deborah Blaz
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint Eye On Education, Inc
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 850g