Alternative/performance based assessment

Performance-based assessment is sometimes characterized as assessing real life, with students assuming responsibility for self-evaluation. Testing is "done" to a student, while performance assessment is done by the student as a form of self-reflection and self-assessment. The overriding philosophy of performance-based assessment is that teachers should have access to information that can provide ways to improve achievement, demonstrate exactly what a student does or does not understand, relate learning experiences to instruction, and combine assessment with teaching.

There are three types of performance-based assessment: performances, portfolios, and projects.

The determination of differences among performance, portfolio, and projects can be rather loosely interpreted, but the differences are distinct enough to permit separate classification among the different categories. Material can be collected as actual products or video and computer archives.

Examples of school tasks that may be included in performance-based assessment are:
Art work ····· Blogs ····· Cartoons ····· Collections ····· Designs and drawings ····· Documentary reports ····· Experiments ····· Foreign language activities ····· Games ····· Internet transmissions ····· Inventions ····· Journals ····· Letters ····· Maps ····· Model construction ····· Musical compositions ····· Musical scores ····· Notebooks ····· Oral reports ····· Original plays - stories - dances ····· Pantomimes····· Performances ····· Performance - musical instrument ····· Photos ····· Plans for inventions ····· Podcasts ····· Poetry recitations ····· Projects ····· Problems solved ····· Puppet shows····· Reading selection····· Recipes ····· Scale models ····· Story illustrations ····· Story boards ····· Videos ····· Websites

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