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Performance Based Assessment (PBA)

Performance-based assessment (PBA) measures students' ability to apply skills and knowledge through open-ended tasks that mimic real-world situations. PBA tasks are complex, authentic, and time-bound, requiring students to create a product or complete a process using higher-order thinking. Examples include group projects, essays, experiments, and portfolios. While PBA provides practical applications of skills and focuses on understanding content and skills, it can lack objectivity and scores may vary between examiners. Teachers apply PBA by identifying goals and standards, designing scenarios, and developing learning plans to address gaps.

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Performance Based Assessment (PBA)

Performance-based assessment (PBA) measures students' ability to apply skills and knowledge through open-ended tasks that mimic real-world situations. PBA tasks are complex, authentic, and time-bound, requiring students to create a product or complete a process using higher-order thinking. Examples include group projects, essays, experiments, and portfolios. While PBA provides practical applications of skills and focuses on understanding content and skills, it can lack objectivity and scores may vary between examiners. Teachers apply PBA by identifying goals and standards, designing scenarios, and developing learning plans to address gaps.

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Performance based

assessment (PBA)
Introduction
 Performance-based assessment measures students'
ability to apply the skills and knowledge learned from a
unit or units of study.
 The task in this assessment usually:

Contain higher-order Ranged from a simple


thinking skills to create a constructed response (e.g.,
product or complete a short answer) to a complex
process (Chun, 2010) design
Characteristics of PBA

Complex Authentic

Time-bound

Process and
Open-ended
product oriented

Students are presented with an open-ended question that may produce several
different correct answers (Chun, 2010). In the higher-level tasks, there is a sense
of urgency for the product to be developed or the process to be determined, as
in most real-world situations ( McTighe, 2015).
Example of PBA
 Group projects enabling a number of students to work
together on a complex problem that requires planning,
research, internal discussion, and group presentation.
 Essays assessing students' understanding of a subject through
a written description, analysis, explanation, or summary.
 Experiments testing how well students understand scientific
concepts and can carry out scientific processes.
 Demonstrations giving students opportunities to show their
mastery of subject-area content and procedures.
 Portfolios allowing students to provide a broad portrait of their
performance through files that contain collections of students'
work, assembled over time

They all require students active participation!


Possible pros and cons of PBA

Advantage Disadvantage
• include more practical • Low objectivity items
applications of skills • Difficult to distinguish the level
• incorporate a greater focus on (whether they are
the understanding and elementary/intermediate/
combining of content and skills advanced)
• Learner-centeredness • Scores varied from different
• Monitoring pupils progress and examiners
overcome their weakness
How teachers apply PBA to pupils
1. Identify goals of the performance-based assessment.
2. Select the appropriate course standards
3. Review assessments and identify learning gaps
4. Design the scenario
 Setting
 Role
 Audience
 Time frame
 Product
5. Gather or create materials
6. Develop a learning plan
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