Performance Based

Assessment

What is Performance Based Assessment ?

• It is a set of strategies for the acquisition and application of knowledge , Skills, and work habits through the performance of tasks that are meaningful and engaging to students.

What is Performance Based Assessment ?

• This type of assessment provides the teacher with information about how students understand and applies knowledge.

What is Performance Based Assessment ?

• Students apply their knowledge and skills in context.

What is Performance Based Assessment ?

• In its simplest terms, a performance assessment (Alternative assessment) is one which requires students to demonstrate that they have mastered specific skills and competencies by performing or producing something.

• Wiggins (1998) uses physical activity when providing examples to illustrate complex assessment concepts, as they are easier to visualize than would be the case with a cognitive example. 

The Cone of Learning

• During the 1960s, Edgar Dale theorized that learners retain more information by what they “do” as opposed to what is “heard”, “read” or “observed”. His research led to the development of the Cone of Experience.

What are the types of Performance Based

Assessment?

Individual or Group Projects

• Projects have long been used in education to assess a student’s understanding of a subject or a particular topic.

• Projects typically require students to apply their knowledge and skills while completing the prescribed task, which often calls for creativity, critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis.

• Group projects involve a number of students working together on a complex problem that requires planning, research, internal discussion, and presentation.

Portfolio

• Portfolios are systematic, purposeful, and meaningful collections of an individual’s work designed to document learning over time.

2 Types of Portfolio

Working Portfolio• A repository of portfolio documents that

the student accumulates over a certain period of time.

• Other types of process information may also be included, such as drafts of student work or records of student achievement or progress over time.

Showcase or model portfolio

• A portfolio consisting of work samples selected by the student that document the student’s best work.

• The student has consciously evaluated his or her work and selected only those products that best represent the type of learning identified for this assessment.

Performances

• Game play during a tournament is also considered a student performance. Rubrics for game play can be written so that students are evaluated on all three learning domains (psychomotor, cognitive, and affective).

• Students might demonstrate their skills and learning in one of the following ways:

Performing an aerobics routine for a school assembly

Organizing and performing a jump rope show at the half-time of a basketball game

• Although performances do not produce a written product, there are several ways to gather data to use for assessment purposes. A score sheet can be used to record student performance using the criteria from a game play rubric. 

Journals

• It can be used to record student feelings, thoughts, perceptions, or reflections about actual events or results. 

Advantages• Collaboration of each group.• Learners centered.• 3 domains are very useful in this type

of assessment.• The knowledge will retain in the

memory of the students.(Cone of Learning)

• Can promote student creativity.

• Using a student-centered design can promote student motivation.

• May allow probes by faculty to gain clearer picture of student understanding or though processes

Disadvantages

• The students can easily cheat in this assessment.

• Too expensive.• Too much time needed to complete

the project.• For teachers, too much time alloted

for making rubrics.

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