The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting

Overview

A practical guide to integrated performance assessment in world language classrooms. This third edition of The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting guides instructors in designing and implementing effective assessments. Informed by research since 2013, it emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels.

The guide expands the interpretive comprehension section into three templates for viewing, listening, and reading. Revised rubrics and tools assist instructors in rating learner performance across communication modes. A new chapter bridges the language and literature divide at the post-secondary level.

• Implement standards-based instruction
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Bridge the language and literature divide

This manual is designed for K-16 world language instructors, teacher candidates, and professional development facilitators seeking innovative strategies for blending instruction and assessment.

Author Biography

Dr. Francis John Troyan is Associate Professor of Multilingual Language Education and Critical Transformative Education at The Ohio State University, where he teaches in the Bilingual, TESOL, and World Language Education programs, as well as the online Graduate Certificate Program in Core Practices in World Language Education. His teaching and research focus on assessment, language teacher education, language teacher identities and ideologies, and genre-based approaches to instruction and assessment in language education. He received the 2022 Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Ed. Dr. Bonnie Adair-Hauck has served as Assistant Professor of French, Chair of the Modern Language Department and Chair of the Humanities Division, La Roche College, as well as Foreign Language Methodologist and Senior Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh. Recipient of state, regional and national awards, Adair-Hauck has authored numerous publications on the PACE model; performance-based language learning; integrated performance assessment and a co-constructed approach to IPA feedback. Adair-Hauck has conducted IPA training workshops in 27 states, as well as in France, Canada and S. Africa. Dr. Eileen W. Glisan is Professor Emerita at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she coordinated the Spanish Education K-12 Program for more than 30 years. Past President of ACTFL, she is co-author of the two-volume series, Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices and of Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction, currently in its fifth edition. She received the 1996 Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education and the 2008 Northeast Conference Nelson H. Brooks Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership to the Profession.