As a gifted coordinator and past gifted intervention specialist/teacher, I love this book!  This book has a wealth of knowledge and expertise of defining what performance based assessment is, looks like; explains how to implement ten different types; how to teach students to engage; complete with evaluation rubrics; and making it authentic through creating a community of learners.  This book also shares templates to immediately use in creating your own performance based assessments, a mock trial and additional sample lessons. This book would be my “go to” book to get started creating lessons and units involving performance based assessment!  I highly recommend this book to all teachers, administrators, gifted intervention specialists, and gifted coordinators.  I have shared it numerous times throughout this year alone in professional development training opportunities.  I wish I would have had this available to me back when I was in the classroom teaching. Definitely add this book to your professional library!

Finally an exceptionally well written book with real-world examples designed to help teachers evaluate performance-based projects, activities and action-oriented lessons. A must have for all educators focusing on 21st century skills needed to prepare college and career ready students. This book helps take away the fear of "I don't know how to assess real life learning in the classroom." I highly recommend this book for all K-12 classroom teachers and as an essential resource for assessing 21st Century learning skills.