ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the types of assessment practices that are linked to productive pedagogies, which support the achievement of these productive performances. Productive assessment tasks incorporate seven elements drawn from Newmann and Associates’ model of authentic assessment tasks. However, the Productive Pedagogies Research team slightly modified the names of these elements, while retaining their substantive nature, in order to make more explicit the links between the pedagogy assessment and performance scales. The elaborate communication item in an assessment task expects that students will respond to the assessment item with a coherent communication of ideas, concepts, arguments and/or explanations. The Productive Pedagogies Research showed no systematic alignment between teachers’ pedagogies and assessment practices. The concept of productive assessment has been somewhat ignored and the findings of the Productive Pedagogies Research on the misalignment of much assessment with curriculum goals and pedagogical practices also largely neglected.
