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Performance assessment involves the demonstration and application of knowledge,
skills,and work habits through what is known as a performance task. It is important
that the task be meaningful and engaging to students.

Tasks built around student
interests engage students and help them make connections to their personal lives.

The core purpose of performance assessment is not to render an evaluation, but to
improve student learning.

This learning is accomplished when a student demonstrates his or her
understanding AND communicates that understanding through written or oral presentations.

Performance assessment can be used as either a formative or summative tool.

1. What essential questions are guiding your instruction and assessment?

2. How much time will you allow students to complete the task, knowing that all
   students do not work or learn at the same pace?

3. What scenario from the real world will be meaningful and engaging for students?

Before constructing performance assessments, teachers should think about what students will need to become proficient in the domain or discipline they are teaching.

Questions to ask when developing performance based assessments are:

Role

Audience

Real-World Goal

Standards for Success

Product/Performance

Performance assessment is part of an approach to teaching and learning that values application over rote memorization

The broadest use of performance assessment is project-based learning. Schools that value deeper learning assign projects to students both as a learning experiences and a form of assessment.

Performance assessment enables personalized learning, facilitates competency based and standards based education and allows mastery tracking (As formative and summative assessments, performance tasks and resulting products scored using standards-aligned rubrics can be important role in demonstrating academic growth)

With project-based learning students learn through an extended project, which may have a number of checkpoints or assessments along the way.

Key features of project based learning are inquiry, exploration, the extended duration of the project, and iteration (requiring students to revise and reflect, for example).

A subset of project-based learning is problem-based learning, which focuses on a specific challenge for which students must find a solution.

Standards-based gradingThis refers to the practice of giving students nuanced and detailed descriptions of their performance against specific criteria or standards, not on a bell curve. It can stand alone or exist alongside traditional letter grading.

Performance assessment:This assessment measures how well students apply their knowledge, skills, and abilities to authentic problems. The key feature is that it requires the student to produce something, such as a report, experiment, or performance, which is scored against specific criteria.

PortfolioThis assessment consists of a body of student work collected over an extended period, from a few weeks to a year or more. This work can be produced in response to a test prompt or assignment but is often simply drawn from everyday classroom tasks. Frequently, portfolios also contain an element of student reflection.

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