Guide to Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) - Softcover

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Judy Lombardi is an Associate Professor of Secondary Education at California State University. Judy has over 30 years experience teaching in public schools and at the university level. Judy's interests include pre-service teacher training, critical thinking, and brain-based research in education.

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The only book that brings together the history, features, research, and applications of PACT, Guide to Performance Assessment for California Teachers provides pre-service and in-service teachers with a thorough how-to manual for understanding and using PACT effectively.

This essential primer organized in topics based on the most frequently asked questions about PACT, has been designed to help teacher candidates understand its origins, research findings, tasks and scoring, and impact on teacher performance assessment in California so they can prepare early in their program to pass it successfully.  Chock full of practical information, the book includes useful examples of the PACT Teaching Event and embedded signature assessments, an explanation of how the Teaching Event is scored, a full chapter devoted to academic language and coverage of next steps for further study and review. 

Features

• Brings together for the first time in one book all of the primary features of PACT so readers can develop a deep Presents an overview of academic language in PACT with vignettes and analysis from the Teaching Event, along with suggested resources and strategies, to help candidates and faculty who struggle with academic language implementation. (Ch. 3)
• Provides candidates with an understanding of how and why PACT was developed, giving the background and rationale for PACT to teacher candidates new to the performance assessment system (Chs. 1 and 2)
• Discusses both multiple and single subject credential examples, givinga helpful overview of PACT across grade levels and subject areas. (Ch. 2)
• Explores the scoring process, rubric, and the major ideas behind the rubrics, helping candidates better understand how they will be evaluated and how they might use the feedback. (Ch. 4)