Performance Assessment Seen Progressing From Theory to Practice

By Robert Rothman

WASHINGTON--With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th- and 6th-grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper-elementary students.

But since she began two years ago to take part in her state's pioneering effort to assess student abilities on the basis of portfolios, Ms. Forseth said, her teaching has "changed 180 degrees.''

"I have to be a problem-solver myself,'' she told participants at a conference here last month. "I have to take risks and persevere,'' just as students...

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