Descriptors for Authentic

Performance Tasks

• What is done in the real world

• Address realistic problems
• Have realistic options
• A realistic audience
• A genuine purpose
Sample Assessment using

G.R.A.S.P.S
 Authentic Performance Tasks Using Grasps
Format: (Provide detail and student and
teacher directions as needed)
Through what authentic performance tasks (using
GRASPS) will students demonstrate the desired
understandings?
 Goal of task related to
understandings:
Your task is to design a
comprehensive and innovative
advocacy projects or activities for
the mangrove forest in the
community.
 Role
You are the chairman of the
advocacy committee on
the protection of the
mangrove forest in your
community.
 Audience:
The target audience is the
whole Barangay community.
 Situation or Context of Scenario
You are tasked being the chairman
of the advocacy committee of the
Greenpeace movement to design a
comprehensive and innovative
advocacy projects or activities for
the mangrove forest in the
community
 Product(s) or Performances for
assessment
Prepare and submit a comprehensive
and innovative advocacy project or
activity plan for the protection of the
mangrove forest in the community
 Standards for assessment
Your work must meet the standards
found in the rubric
Key Criteria or Rubric:
By what criteria will performances of understanding
be judged? (S of GRASPS)

RUBRIC FOR PERFORMANCE TASK

Advocacy Project /Activity Rubric

SCALE 4 3 2 1

Community-based

Comprehensive

Innovativeness Very original, shows Original Shows Does not

imaginative use of ideas, adequate use some originality, exhibit efforts to be
resources of resources inadequate use original
of resources
 Scenario Example for Science
– The Goal is to determine the best solution for evaluating water
quality and usability for recreational purposes in your city.
– Role: You are the director of the water authority
– Audience are members of the city council who must make final
decisions on usability based on your recommendations.
– Situation: You must plan and assess the water quality from at least 5
different fresh water locations in your city, conduct experiments, and
write a report for non scientists on your findings and
recommendations.
– Products or Performances: Identified experiments, tests, and results
from 5 water samples. Written or oral report with visuals and
recommendations to explain the conditions and analysis of each
water site.
Scenarios for Authentic Tasks
• Build assessments anchored
in authentic tasks using
GRASPS:
– What is the Goal in the
scenario?
– What is the Role?
– Who is the Audience?
– What is your Situation
(context)?
– What is the Performance
challenge?
– By what Standards will work be