Process-Oriented Performance-Based Assessment Part 1
Process-Oriented Performance-Based Assessment Part 1
OUTPUTS
PRODUCTS
STUDENTS LEARNING
TRADITIONAL TESTING
PROCESS
EXPLAIN
STUDENTS LEARNING
Assessment is not an end in itself but a vehicle for educational improvement. Its effective practice begins with and enacts a vision of the kinds of learning we most value for students.
- integrated
- revealed in performance over time.
It entails not only what students know but what they can do with what they know.
- habits of the minds that affect academic and performance beyond the classroom
Assessment should reflect these understandings by employing a diverse array of methods including those that call for actual performance.
These must be used over time so as to reveal change, growth, and increasing degrees of integration.
It is concerned with the actual task performance rather than the output or product of the activity.
The learning competencies in processoriented performancebased assessment are stated in directly observable behaviors of the students
These learning competencies should start from a general statement, and then breaks down to easily observable behaviors
The activity aims to enable the students to recite apoem entitled The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
3.Maintain eye contact with the audience while reciting the poem
4.Create the ambiance of the poem through appropriate rising and falling intonation
1.Identify the activity that would highlight the competencies to be evaluated (reciting a poem, writing an essay, manipulating a microscope)
Example: The topic is on Understanding biological diversity Possible Task Design: Bring the students to a pond or creek and ask them to find all living organisms as they can find. Bring them to a school playground too.
How to assess: Observe how the students will develop a system on finding organisms, classifying and concluding the differences between the bio diversity of the two sites.
TASK:
1. Think of an activity in your field of specialization.
2. Formulate the learning competencies.
- a scoring scale used to assess student performance along a task-specific set of criteria
Authentic assessments
- are typically criterionreferenced measures
- a students aptitude on a task is determined by matching the students performance against a set of criteria to determine the degree to which the students performance meets the criteria for the task.
2.Level of Performance
degree the students have met the criterion
Descriptors
- spell out what is expected of students at each level of performance for each criterion
Weight
mechanism for assigning scores to each project
1. Clearer expectations Student know what is expected on them and teachers know what to look for in students performance
2. More consistent and objective assessment teachers objectively distinguish between a good and a bad performance
3. Better Feedback
Types of Rubric
1.Analytic Rubric articulates levels of performance for each criterion so the teacher can assess student performance on each criterion
2.Holistic Rubric does not list separate levels of performance for each criterion. Instead, a holistic rubric assigns level of performance by assessing performance across multiple criteria as a whole. A more global picture of the students performance in the entire task.
Analytic rubric is more common and assesses tasks that involve a larger number of criteria.
- There is no specific number of levels a rubric should possess. Start small then expand.