Performance-based assessment is an assessment which ask students to demonstrate that they have mastered a specific skills or subject. For example, designing experiment, writing essay, work in group to accomplish a specific task, demonstrate proficiency in a technique or topic, use maps, write short stories or poems, be skillful in playing on music instruments….
Performance assessment measure skills and abilities to integrate knowledge and develop plan.
The educational benefit of performance assessment has been demonstrated by a number of research ( Lane,s.2010). when student are given the opportunity to work on meaningful real work tasks in instruction ,student have demonstrated improved performance on performance assessment.
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In informal assessment a student does not know that the assessment is taking place. One example is how student interact with each other (Stiggins,1994). In formal assessment the students understand that teacher evaluate him or her.
Advantages of performance assessment In performance assessment teachers has more information about the learning needs of their students, and this let them to modify their methods of teaching and learning styles, and to understand the strength and the weakness in students. They also allow students to assess their own learning progress and reflect on their own education .Also this assessment allows schools to identify the skills and knowledge they want their student to learn and acquire.
In addition performance assessment can measure complex learning outcomes ,like knowing to do something is not like being able to do it.
Disadvantages of performance based …show more content…
There is no clear right or wrong questions, so teacher should decide how to rate and how to distinguish average performance from excellent performance.
In addition ,one of its disadvantages is that teachers may only teach the test and ignore the rest of curriculum. Also unreliability of rating of performance across teachers is a limitations.
Description of performance based assessment Performance assessment measure student reasoning skills and cognitive ability and how they apply knowledge to solve realistic problem . The close similarity between the performance that is assessed and the performance of interest is the defining characteristic of a performance assessment as described by (Cohen,Kane,Crooks,1999)
As stated by the standards for educational and psychological testing ,performance assessment attempt to ''emulate the context or conditions in which the intended knowledge or skills are actually applied''(AERA)(APA)(NCME),1999.
Performance assessment requires student to conduct for example a science investigation, or writing explanation for a math problem, or writing essays. Proficiency can be explained by the skills involved in solving a specific tasks, as well as the strategy to attain a
Performance assessment measure skills and abilities to integrate knowledge and develop plan.
The educational benefit of performance assessment has been demonstrated by a number of research ( Lane,s.2010). when student are given the opportunity to work on meaningful real work tasks in instruction ,student have demonstrated improved performance on performance assessment.
Introduction …show more content…
In informal assessment a student does not know that the assessment is taking place. One example is how student interact with each other (Stiggins,1994). In formal assessment the students understand that teacher evaluate him or her.
Advantages of performance assessment In performance assessment teachers has more information about the learning needs of their students, and this let them to modify their methods of teaching and learning styles, and to understand the strength and the weakness in students. They also allow students to assess their own learning progress and reflect on their own education .Also this assessment allows schools to identify the skills and knowledge they want their student to learn and acquire.
In addition performance assessment can measure complex learning outcomes ,like knowing to do something is not like being able to do it.
Disadvantages of performance based …show more content…
There is no clear right or wrong questions, so teacher should decide how to rate and how to distinguish average performance from excellent performance.
In addition ,one of its disadvantages is that teachers may only teach the test and ignore the rest of curriculum. Also unreliability of rating of performance across teachers is a limitations.
Description of performance based assessment Performance assessment measure student reasoning skills and cognitive ability and how they apply knowledge to solve realistic problem . The close similarity between the performance that is assessed and the performance of interest is the defining characteristic of a performance assessment as described by (Cohen,Kane,Crooks,1999)
As stated by the standards for educational and psychological testing ,performance assessment attempt to ''emulate the context or conditions in which the intended knowledge or skills are actually applied''(AERA)(APA)(NCME),1999.
Performance assessment requires student to conduct for example a science investigation, or writing explanation for a math problem, or writing essays. Proficiency can be explained by the skills involved in solving a specific tasks, as well as the strategy to attain a