Performance Assessment

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Standard 10

Students demonstrate their learning through performance-based assessments and opportunities to develop self-assessment and self-monitoring skills.

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Stone Mountain Middle School students demonstrate their learning through performance-based assessments and opportunities to develop self-assessment and self-monitoring skills.  Our students also engage in STEM-specific performance assessments that provide opportunities for public demonstrations of learning.  Our students present using portfolios, journals, engineering design notebooks, and classified artifacts found in completed work samples.   As a requirement for the STEM program at Stone Mountain Middle School, students must not only be able to design or redesign technology to solve real-world problems, but they must also present their findings. One student method to present their finding is to use the following PIRATES (engineering design) manner:

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Exhibitions, investigations, demonstrations, written and oral responses, and journals are a major component of the StoneMountain Middle School STEM program. In the capstone projects, students produce operable ROVs, aquaponics tanks, and artificial pancreases. However, as students participate in self-directed learning experiences, they need opportunities to present a body of work that demonstrates mastery of STEM literacy:  Stone Mountain Middle School students' demonstrate their learning through performance based assessments and express their conclusions through elaborated explanations of their thinking. 

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