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Planning Task Activities What activities will be included in the task? Which of these activities will be scored? Which indicator(s) will be assessed through each activity?

In designing the task activities, be sure he scored components elicit student responses that correspond to the identified indicators. Additionally, non-scored components should be supportive of those that are scored. The following template may be helpful for designing task activities:

Theme/Meaningful Context:
Activity #	Time:	Scored? ___YES __NO
Indicator(s):
Purpose:		Audience:
Activity Description:		Materials and Other Considerations:

Excerpted from Designing Performance Assessment Tasks,
Maryland Assessment Consortium, 1995.

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