High School Performance
If you want to graduate from high school, looks like you are going to have to perform.
And we mean literally.
More and more high schools are starting to require performance based assessments in order to graduate.
For example, beginning this year, to graduate, all 200 seniors at Portsmouth are required to complete a year-long senior project, consisting of the “4Ps” — a research paper, a tangible product, a process portfolio, and an oral presentation.
Students are doing all kinds of diverse projects like creating set designs for plays, running marathons and fundraising for cancer, making films, or creating songs and sonnets.
This raises the question of whether these kinds of creative projects can be objectively measured, assessed and graded.
But maybe there is more to learning than the grade letter you get at the end. Maybe learning is the grade A experience in itself.
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