CLASS 6

Performance-Based Assessment

Authentic Assessment

Class Outline

1. Performance Assessment2. Class Activity3. Authentic Assessment4. Discussion Questions5. Class Presentations

What is Performance Assessment?

Based on an activities that require applying knowledge and skills from different learning targets (Performance task).

Uses clear criteria to determine whether the student achieve or not this application (Rubric).

It is required to choose the specific learning objectives and the convenience of Performance Assessment.

Definition

Performance assessment refers to assessment methods focused on teachers’ observations and judgments about students’ demonstrations of knowledge

Consists on two parts: Task Scoring system

Not a synonym with alternative or authentic assessment.

Performance Assessment succeed if...

Coherence between task, objectives, curriculum and rubric. Three legged coffee table...

Include many types of different assessment along with Performance Assessment to have the whole picture of your students.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Related to instructionFocused on what

students are able to do

Continuous feedbackRelates the three

aspects of learning/teaching (Instruction – Assessment – Curriculum)

Problems with reliability

Hard to sample the tasks to be evaluated.

Time consuming.

Types of Performance Assessment

Structured: On demand task Paper and Pencil Resources beyond paper and pencil

Natural occurring tasks E.g. Conflict resolution.

Long term projectsPortfolios

Process portfolios Best work portfolios

Type of Performance Tasks

Restricted-type tasks: Narrow skill and relative brief response

Defend an answer, draw a diagram, construct a graph (Based on explanations, as opposed to Essay – inferences -).

Type at least 35 words per minute with five or fewer mistakes.

Extended-type tasks: Collaborative work, several resources, evaluation

focused on the relevance of the resources. Products developed in long periods.

Plan a trip to another country; include the budget and the itinerary.

Skills

Competencies focused on skills could be: Communication and presentation skills (oral and

writing skills) Word identification, comprehension, naming and

matching lower-upper case letters.WRITING: Purpose, Organization, Details, Voice, Usage, Mechanics and Grammar. ORAL: Physical expression, vocal expression,

verbal expression.

Skills

Competencies focused on skills: Psychomotor Skills:

Describe the physical actions required. Fine, Gross Motor, Complex, Visual, Verbal and

Auditory. Identify the levels of performance:

PERCEPTION, SET (state of readiness to take action), GUIDE RESPONSE (imitation), MECHANISM (habit), COMPLEX OVERT RESPONSE (adjustment), ORIGINATION (creating new actions to solve a

problem).“How to write the letter A”

Skills

Competencies focused on: Products: have been used for years. It is new, though,

the emphasis on authentic tasks and consistent scoring method. Show examples with your expectations. Crafting authentic tasks.

Inauthentic: Explain what you would teach to students learning to play basketball.

Somewhat authentic: Show how to perform basketball skills in practice.

Authentic: Play a basketball game.

PERFORMANCE TASKS

Generate or identify

idea for task

Develop task and context

description

Write task question

or prompt

Describing the idea…

1. Nature of Final Product1. Content and skills2. Student Activities3. Resources needed4. Teacher role5. Administrative procedure6. Scoring Procedure

Performance Task Question or Prompt

2. The task should integrate essential aspects of the content with essential skills.

1. Task should be specific.2. Relevant to the content taught.

3. The task should be authentic Realistic, Requires judgment and innovation Explore rather than restate. Assesses the ability to use both knowledge and

skills. Allows to revision, feedback, metacognition.

Performance Task or Prompt…

4. Use the task to assess multiple competencies.

5. Structure the task so that students can succeed.

6. Put yourself in the students’ shoes.7. Task allows for multiple solutions.

Performance Task or Prompt…

8. The task should be clear9. Challenge and stimulating to students.10. Include the scoring criteria

Rubrics

11. Constrains for completing the task: Resources Time Help from others

Characteristics of Performance Assessment

Students perform, create, construct, or do somethingDeep understanding and/or reasoning skillsInvolves sustained workCalls on students to explain, justify and defendInvolves engaging ideas of importance and substanceRelies on trained assessor’s judgments for scoringMultiple criteria and standards are prespecified

and publicNo single “correct” answerRelated to the real-world contexts and constraints

Class Activity

Team upSolve the mystery of the day:

When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1 as the correct answer?

Or

What’s the phraseor word?

What did you do to solve the problem? List the behaviours

Authentic Tasks

Tasks must:

Be realistic Require judgment and innovation Ask the student to “do” the subject, not just to

“restate” or to repeat what was taught. Replicate or simulate contexts in which adults

are “tested” Student uses efficiently several skills and knowledge. Audience beyond the school.

Why mathematics are important?

Authentic Assessment

Tasks that are directly meaningful for the students. Handwriting exercise,

without any sense of what a daffodil is...

Tasks are realistic and meaningful.

Realistic and meaningful for whom?

“Daffodils”

Characteristics of Authentic Assessment

Emphasizes applicationDirect assessmentRealistic tasksOpen-ended thinkingSuitable with modern learning theories

(Socio-Constructivism)Focused on process and product.

Multiple Intelligence

Provide several tasks to students, thus students are more likely to demonstrate their knowledge.

Hard to determine whether students really understand a piece of knowledge.

Lacks of reliability and validity.Hard to design rubrics for scoring.

Assessment Plan

Learning Plan, Competency Learning Outcome

What type of knowledge are you targeting to?Design a performance assessment task aimed

to assess the level of achievement.Design analytic rubrics depending on the

learning outcome.