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Assistant Managing Editor Debra Viadero talks about the latest turn in education toward performance-based assessment and invites educators to the 鈥淭esting for Real-World Performance鈥� summit on Tuesday, February 19, at 1 p.m. In this online event, Education Week journalists and guests will staff online 鈥渄iscussion rooms鈥� on a host of topics, including: the problems and pitfalls of performance-based testing measures, ways to assess group work, alternatives to traditional grades, how some college admissions offices weigh performance-based measures, and video game-based formative assessments for elementary schools. You will get a unique opportunity to interact directly with the writers and experts who helped shape coverage of our new special report on performance assessment. After the discussions, watch writers and editors sum up the discussion in a series of livestreamed interviews.