SEGUISABAL JAMES RYAN ED227 05/06/22

ASSIGNMENT
1. What and why of performance assessment.
- meaning and nature
-principles of performance assessment

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
I. MEANING AND ITS NATURE
 It is also known as alternative or authentic assessment. It is a form of testing that requires students to
perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list.
 The ultimate purpose of instruction is to enable the learner to employ the knowledge acquired by
some useful practical application. Knowledge based assessment gauges how much of the contact
material the learner has internalized. Learner's ability to make a practical application of that
knowledge is only a projection based on responses to the abstract assessment.
 A performance-based assessment leaves no doubt. It requires that the learner take all the abstract
facts from class and apply them to a real problem.
 A performance-based assessment will usually center on the assessor observing the student
conducting their normal work, within their natural surroundings. This way you are more likely to
get an honest reflection of what the persons normal performance is like. If the ‘real’ situation
cannot be used, then another method, would be to use a simulated area, e.g., a practical room, or
other similar venue.
 To do justice to the process, you will need to compile a list of descriptors or criteria of what and how
you expect the performer to work. e.g., if it was a student teacher being assessed here are a few
criteria that would be use:

1. The teacher provides a full lesson plan

2. The teacher is aware of learner differences and has provided for this by X, Y, and Z
etc.
 The performance should be graded according to the criteria and how successful the
performance was this respect. A record of the assessed performance will be kept, and will
include any actions that arose because of the observation, e.g., the need for further training,
the need for further observations etc.

PRINCIPLES OF PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

 Accountability.
 Performance-Based Assessment.
 Evidence-Based Assessment.
 Validity and Reliability in Assessment.
 Participation and Collaboration.

2. What is process-oriented performance-based assessment.

  A Process oriented approach to learning focuses on ‘HOW’ the student learns, whereas a
product-oriented approach relates to ‘WHAT’ they have learned.
 Relating these concepts to assessment you would need to prepare an assessment that
shows evidence of how the student learned something, in math(s) for example, the
assessor is interested in whether the student has the correct answer (product) but also how
the student worked out the sum/problem etc(process)

 It is concerned with the actual task performance rather than the output or product of an
activity. - Process oriented performance-based assessment evaluates the actual task
performance. It does not emphasize on the output or product of the activity.

3. What is product-oriented performance-based assessment?

 Product oriented assessment is a kind of assessment where in the assessor views and
scores the final product made and not on the actual performance of making that product.
 It is concern on the product alone and not on the process.