Performance-Based Tests

Introduction
 Over the past few years, there has been a
general dissatisfaction over the results of
traditional standardized objective tests.
 Concerted efforts have, therefore, been
expended to find alternative assessment
mechanism of measuring educational outcomes
and processes and measure more complex
processes in education.
 Example: Multiple choice test
 It has been criticized because they purportedly,
are unable to measure complex problem solving
skills.
Performance-based assessment
 It is one of the alternative assessment technique

 It believes that the best way to gauge a student or pupil

competency in a certain task is trough observation en
situ or on site.
 It is designed to assess students on what they know,
what they are able to do and the learning strategies they
employ in the process of demonstrating it.
 There are many testing procedures that are classified as
performance tests with a generally agreed upon
definition that these tests are assessment procedures
that require students to perform a certain task or activity
or perhaps, solve complex problems.
 According to Bryant he suggested that assessing
portfolios of a student’s work over time, students’
demonstrations, hands-on execution of experiments by
students, and a student’s work in simulated environments
falls under the category of portfolios.
 Example of portfolio assessment are keeping records of
all tasks successfully and skillfully performed by a
student.
 According to Mehrens performance testing is not new. In
fact, various types of performance based-tests were used
even before the introduction of multiple-choice testing.
 Performance testing procedures are: performance tasks,
rubrics scoring guides and exemplars of performance.