Performance Assessment Strategies

Performance Assessment Strategies

Performance Tasks

The performance tasks have been developed by the teachers for each grade and level and also for different areas. They are used to measure the performance of students and make the teaching experience of the students relevant by involving real life examples such as real life issues and problems. These have been developed to carry out an assessment whether the students are capable of demonstrating the specific skills that that have been outlined in the course curriculum and whether they have the broader skills that are essential to pass the course. This method requires of the students to employ a higher level of thinking. Skills such as those of planning, analyzing, organizing, producing and communicating are very much required. These skills do not let the student stick merely to the memorizing facts but they go on to induce ion them the capability to develop critical thinking. This reflects the very requirement of practical life that concepts be understood by the students rather than memorized. Teachers are involved in the identification of criteria with which they are going to evaluate the students. Such an evaluation tool is often referred to as rubric.

Benefits

Utilizes several approaches

Utilizes contexts of real world

Utilize common language around learning

Limitations

Human Scoring

Requires careful training of raters

Administration Time

Ratings can be more subjective

Portfolio

A portfolio refers to the collection of student work that is indicative of the efforts given by the students and the progress that they have made, and the achievements they have accomplished. It expands on more than one area of the curriculum. The portfolio involves the collection of the following:

Student participation in selecting contents.

Evidence of a student's self-reflection.

Criteria for selection.

Criteria for judging merit (Paulson et.al, 2001).

Newsday educational institutes are faced with many new challenges that have been imposed due to the advancement of society and businesses. The student's capability at having mastered the core curriculum needs to be monitored closely. Portfolios are of an advantage as they can help in improving the assessment process by the teachers by exhibiting the different skills that the student has acquired and also they reflect the changes and growth that the student has been able to make over a period of time. They also support instructional goals and enable a better understanding of the different aspects of the students.

Benefits

They encourage a learning based on self direction

They enlarge the view of what is going to be learned

They demonstrate the progress towards the outcomes that have been identified

They create an intersection for instructions and assessments

They provide the students with ways of valuing themselves as learner

They offer many opportunities for peer supported growth

Limitations

Time consuming

Challenging to appraise

Content vary as per the students

May not provide for externality

Microteaching

The microteaching, English Microteaching, means the miniaturization teaching. It is also known as "micro-teaching", "micro-teaching" "small teaching", ". It was first developed in 1963 by the Stanford University Professor, D.Allen and his colleagues A.Eve established. They carried out the transformation of the traditional way of teaching skills training, the ...