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Performance assessments evaluate students' application of knowledge and skills to authentic tasks. There are two main types: process-oriented assessments focus on demonstration of skills during a task, while product-oriented assessments evaluate the final output or product. Both aim to measure competencies along a scale from novice to expert level. Effective performance assessments use multiple, varied tasks; differentiate instruction; and involve student self- and peer-evaluation.

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Performance assessments evaluate students' application of knowledge and skills to authentic tasks. There are two main types: process-oriented assessments focus on demonstration of skills during a task, while product-oriented assessments evaluate the final output or product. Both aim to measure competencies along a scale from novice to expert level. Effective performance assessments use multiple, varied tasks; differentiate instruction; and involve student self- and peer-evaluation.

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Performance Assessment

A performance-based assessment is one in which the teacher observes and makes a judgment about a student's
demonstration skills or competency in creating a product, constructing a response, or making a presentation
(McMillan, 2007).
Nature of Performance Assessment
Authentic is Alternative According to Linn (1995), performance assessments provide a basis for teachers to
evaluate the effectiveness of the process or procedure used.
Examples:

 Laboratory Investigations
 Portfolio
 Completing Original Research
 Composing Essay
Purpose
This assessment measures how well students apply their knowledge, skills, and abilities to authentic problems.
Educators can administer a performance assessment at any point, though they often use them at the beginning
and end of the course.
Features Of Performance Assessment
1. An emphasis on 'doing open-ended activities for which there is no correct, objective answer and that
may assess higher thinking.
2. Direct methods of evaluation.
3. Self-assessment.
4. assessment of group performance as well as individual performance
5. Extended period of time for assessment
Types of Performance Assessment
Process-Oriented Assessment
Process-oriented performance-based assessment is concerned with the actual task performance rather than the
output or product of an activity.
Process-Oriented Learning Competencies
Learning competencies in process-oriented performance-based assessment:

 The learning objectives in process-oriented performance-based assessment are stated in directly


observable behaviors of the students.
 Focus on the behaviors that demonstrate “best practice” for the specific task or activity.
Example of Process-Oriented Assessment

Topic Interdependence / symbiotic relationship


Task Explain and illustrate the roles and relationships among producers, consumers, and
description decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web.
Competencies Present a diagram (i.e., food web) that illustrates the flow of energy among producers,
consumers, and decomposers within an ecosystem. Explain complex interrelationships
among the various types of organisms in a food web.

Product-Oriented Assessment
Product-Based Performance Assessment is a kind of assessment where the assessor views and scores the final
product made and not on the actual performance of making the product.
Product-Oriented Learning Competencies
Learning competencies associated with products or output are linked with an assessment with three levels of
performance manifested by the product, namely: novice or beginner’s level, skilled level, and expert level.
3 Levels of Expertise
Novice Or Beginner’s Level - Does the finished product illustrate the minimum expected parts and function?
Skilled Level - Does the finished output contain additional parts and functions on top of the minimum
requirements?
Expert Level - does the finished product contain the minimum requirements, have additional features, and be
aesthetically pleasing?
Example of Learning Competencies
The product desires to create a scrapbook illustrating the microscope and its parts and their functions.
Novice Or Beginner’s Level. if the output or product contains pictures and other illustrations of the parts of
the microscope
Skilled Level. If the output or product contains description and functions for the illustration made by the
students for the parts of the microscope.
Expert Level. If the output or product is presentable, complete, informative, and pleasing to the reader of the
scrapbook.
Principles Of Performance Assessment

 Multiple assessments for each power standard and related indicators.


 Spectrum of tasks – basic to enrichment.
 Essential for differentiated instruction and effective classroom management.
 Not all students may be working on the same task at the same time.
 Students as collaborators, peer-and self-evaluators.
 Group process, individual accountability.
 Traditional tests used as “concurrent validity" measure.

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