 2.

5 Developing Exibits
Exhibits are visual presentations or displays that need little or no
explanation from the creators. An exhibits is offered to explain, demostrate or
show something.

 2.6 Presentation Task

This is a work or task performed in front of an audience.

 2.7 Capstone Performances.

These are task that occur at the end of a program of study and enable
students to show knowledge and skills in the context that matches the world of
practicing professionals.
 3. Strengths and Limitations

 3.1 Performance assessment clearly identifies and clarifies learning

targets.
Authentic performance tasks such as real world challenges and situations
can closely match with the various complex learning targets.

 3.2 Performance assessment allows students to exhibit their own skills,

talents, and expertise.
Tasks show integration of the student’s skills, knowledge and abilities, provide
challenge and opportunities to exhibits their best creation.
 3.3 Performance assessment advocates constructivist principle of
learning.
Students are more engaged in acive learning and give more
opportunities to demonstrate their learning in different ways in complex
tasks.

 3.4 Performance assessment uses a variety of approaches to student

evaluation.
This offers students a variety of way of expressing their learning and
Increases the validity of student’s evaluation.

 3.5 Performance assessment allows the teachers to explore the main goal
and processes of teaching and learning process.
Teachers may reflect and revisit learning targets, curriculum and
instructional pratices, and standards as they utilize performance-based
assessment.
Though performance assessments, offer several advantages over traditional
objective assessment procedures, they have some distinct limitations as well.

1. Development of high quality performance assessment is a tedious process.

Performance assessment needs careful planning and implementation. It is
very time consuming to construct good tasks.

2. Performance assessment requires a considerable amount of time to administer.

Paper and pencil takes 15 to 20 minutes per tasks to complete depending on
the number of items. Most authentic tasks take a number of days to complete. Most
of the time performance assessment is administered to small groups of students
unlike traditional testing which is simultaneously administered to a entire class.
3. Performance assessment takes a great deal of tiem to score.
The more complex the process and performance, the more time you can expect to
spend scoring. To reduce the scoring time, crafting a high quality rubrics is
recommended.

4. Performance task score may have lower reliability.

This resulted to inconsistency of scoring by teachers who interpret observation
quite differently.

5. Performance tasks completion may be discouraging to less able students.

Some tasks that require students to sustain their interest for a longer time may
discourage disadvantaged students. They may have partial knowledge of the learning
target but may fail to complete the task because it does not allow them to utilize this
partial knowledge effectively and efficiently.
A summary of strengths and weaknesses of
performance assessment is presented below:

Strengths Weaknesses

Integrates assessment with instruction. Reliability may be difficult to establish .

Learning occurs during assessment. Measurement error due to subjective nature of te

scoring may be significant.

Provides opportunities for formative assessment. Inconsistent student performance across time may
result in inaccurate conclusion.

Tends to be more authentic that other types of Few samples of student achievement .
assessments.

More engaging; active involvement of students. Requires considerable teacher time to prepare and
student time to complete.

Provides additional way for students to show what Difficult to plan for amount of time needed.
they know and can do.
 Strengths Weaknesses
Emphasis on reasoning skills. Limited ability to generalize to a larger domain of
knowledge.

Forces teachers to establish specific criteria to

identify successful performance.

Encourages student self-assessment.

Emphasis on application of knowledge.

Encourages re-examination of instructional goals

and the purpose of schooling.
1. This resulted to inconsistency of scoring by teachers who interpret observation quite
differently.
2. This is a work or task performed in front of an audience.
3. Performance assessment needs careful planning and implementation. It is very time
consuming to construct good tasks.
4. This offers students a variety of way of expressing their learning and Increases the validity
of student’s evaluation.
5. Exhibits are visual presentations or displays that need little or no explanation from the
creators.

Development of high quality performance assessment is a tedious process

Performance task score may have lower reliability
Developing Exibits
Performance assessment uses a variety of approaches to student evaluation
Presentation Task