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Figure 2 Screenshot of the Performance, Criteria, and Measurement Learning Object

Figure 3 Method for Developing Performance Criteria for Individuals and Groups

1. Identify key stakeholders for the performance.
2. Describe the performance expected by all stakeholders, including the performer(s).
3. Brainstorm to get a list of areas of quality that can be observed within the expected performance.
4. Minimize redundancy and overlap among the areas of quality.
5. Select and describe critical areas of quality that most contribute to the desired performance.
6. Articulate connections among aspects within each area of quality in terms of how they work together to produce

the desired outcomes.
7. Develop clear statements of performance by synthesizing the relationships among aspects within each area of

quality.
8. Sequence the statements to form a logical set.

3), which led to the publication of sets of performance Writing and Analyzing Performance Criteria Forms,
criteria for individuals in a variety of roles: learning to shown in Figure 4.
learn camp facilitator, district superintendent, college
president, developmental educator, online educator, A recent discovery about the process of writing perfor-
and transformational leader in education (Pacific Crest, mance criteria is that using a table to organize information
2015). Building upon this, the Performance Measures before writing the criteria can make the process clearer and
Institute and Workshop offers an activity to help faculty limit the possibility of overlap between characteristics. In
become proficient at drafting performance criteria. Table 1, for example, characteristics representing areas of
This activity uses the Methodology for Developing quality in the performance are represented as labels for
Performance Criteria shown in Figure 3, as well as the each column, and the attributes which contribute to each
characteristic are listed in the cells for each column. An

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