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Most of the chapters in the book are focused on a middle school science task, entitled Creature Feature. The book describes the task and how it was used as well as what was learned through the study of student performance. The author talks about how performance tasks are embedded in classroom instruction, identifies how the Creature Feature task fulfills curriculum standards, and explains how to make a performance task. Several different assessment scoring tools are discussed, including rubrics and analytic assessment lists. The final chapter presents performance tasks for a scientific method in terms of the students' abilities to conduct the experiments for consumer decision making as well as their skills in critiquing another person's use of the scientific method.