TYPES OF PERFORMANCE

TASKS

WHAT IS PERFORMANCE-BASED TASKS?

•It's what you do with what you know.

•The focus of performance-based assessment is the final output that must be developed or completed.

-problem-solving, demonstration tasks and

other authentic experiences

•Performance assessment is more like playing baseball than just playing catch.

•Performance assessment looks at authentic use of information.

•Performance assessment tasks make use of different learning styles and preferences.

•Performance assessment involves cooperative learning.

•Performance assessment deals with attitudes and mental habits.

SOME PERFORMANCE-

BASED TASKS ARE:

•1.) SOLVING A PROBLEM

•2.) COMPLETING AN INQUIRY

•3.) DETERMINING A POSITION

•4.) DEMONSTRATION TASK

•5.) DEVELOPING EXHIBITS

•6.) PRESENTATION TASK

•7.) CAPSTONE PERFORMANCES

•With the different types of performance tasks, the teacher may decide what and when materials should be used, specifies the instructions for performance, describes the kinds of outcomes toward which students should work, tells the students they are being assessed, and gives students opportunities to prepare themselves for the assessment.

•Performance tasks on the other hand can be performed also in a typical and natural setting, which give students opportunity to perform particular activity which the teacher would like to assess.