What it is: also known as authentic assessment, this type of assessment provides a contect for students to work with real-world scenarios to demonstrate their knowledge of a skill or tasks rather than answering questions about it. When creating a performance assessment, teachers must think about: real-world goals, role, audience, standards for success, and product/performance. A quality performance assessment includes real-world scenarios, complex processes, higher-order thinking, authentic performance, and transparent evaluation criteria.