Perfomance based assessments
Published on Nov 19, 2015
for the gifted curriculum
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What is Performance Based Assessment?
Burdock, Johnson, Martin, Rising
Performance assessments can be defined as those tasks that require students to demonstrate their synthesized knowledge, understanding, and skills by addressing several objectives, sometimes across multiple disciplines, all without teacher assistance.
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What are the elements of performance based assessment?
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1-Students are engaged in conceptualized academic exercises where they are comparing, contrasting, summarizing, and predicting
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2-They engage in the types of thinking that characterizes what professionals do in the "real world.”
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3-Rubrics allow the teacher to clearly articulate their expectations, while providing students with clear understanding of what is required to meet and extend beyond particular performance standards.
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Benefits of Performance-Based Assessment
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The student is enabled and more responsible for the demonstration of their learning.
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Performance-based assessments go beyond measuring students’ acquisition of knowledge - they demand far more than memorization of rules or facts.
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Teachers can gather a demonstration of the knowledge a student has on a subject rather than simply testing the accuracy of their response on a selection of questions.
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Performance-based testing forces the students apply their knowledge into framework that can be understood and explained.
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Performance based assessments allow students opportunities to use learn how to ask questions, to organize data, to compute, and to write. Ultimately they learn to apply these skills in meaningful ways.
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Five Challenges of Performance-Based Assessments
- Time
- Content
- Reliability
- Validity
- Cost
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Challenge 1: Time Performance-based assessments generally require additional time to administer – this takes instructional time.
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Challenge 2: Content
There is also an inherent trade off between time and content; the more content the performance-based assessments attempts to cover, the more time it will take to design, administer, and score
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Challenge 3: Reliability
The main threat to reliability comes from the necessity of having ‘experts’ score the performance-based assessment. Even with a rubric, there may be variation in scoring.
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Challenge 4: Validity
The main threat to validity comes from whether or not the performance-based assessment measures what it is supposed to measure.
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Challenge 5: Cost
Performance-based assessments are usually the most costly approach due to the amount of time required to train raters, as well as score the assessments.
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Recommendation 1: Start with an essential question or problem that can measure the understanding of the standard
Tasks go to the heart of essential learnings by asking for exhibitions of understandings and abilities that matter.
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Recommendation 2: Real life challenges
Tasks resemble interdisciplinary real-life challenges, not schoolish busywork that is artificially fragmented and easy to grade
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Recommendation 3: Set Standards
Tasks that set standards, for they point students toward higher, richer levels of knowing
This can be achieved through assignment directions and rubrics
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Recommendation 4: Student Motivation
Students need to buy in to the project and task
Tasks are worth striving and practicing
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Recommendation 5: Opportunities to extend
Tasks generally involve a higher-order challenge for which students have to go beyond routine use of previously learned information.
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