Lesson 3

Nature of Performance-based
Assessment

Assessment of Learning 2
Harby Nanad
Section Intended Learning Outcome
» Apply the principles in
constructing and interpreting
performance-based assessment

Chapter Intended Learning Outcome

» At the end of the chapter, you should
be able to analyze the nature and
essential characteristics of
performance-based assessment
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Performance-
based
Assessment
1 Meaning and
Characteristics
Performance-based Assessment (PBA)
• teacher observes and makes a judgment
about the student’s demonstration of a skill
or competency in
• creating a product
• constructing a response
• making a presentation
• alternative form of assessment that
involves student producing a project,
whether oral, written, individual, or group
performance.
 PBA types of activities
• Writing a research report
• Solving and conducting experiments and
investigations
• return demonstration
• speech
• skit
• role-playing
• constructing and implementing seminar plan
• creating video presentation
 DepEd Order 7, s 2012
• Highest level of assessment focuses on
the performances (product) which the
students are expected to produce
through authentic performance tasks.
Features of Performance Assessment (Popham, 2011)

• Multiple Evaluation Criteria

• judged using more than one criteria.
• Pre-specified quality standards
• judging is explicated in advanced.
• Judgmental appraisal
• human judgments to determine how
acceptable a student’s performance
really is.
2 Types of
Performance Tasks
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debate
practice teaching
current issues to be solved
science investigation
singing and dancing
setting-up the microscope
exhibiting portfolios
 Types of Performance Tasks
1.Solving a Problem
2.Completing an inquiry
3.Determining a position
4.Demonstration task
5.Developing exhibits
6.Presentation task
7.Capstone performances
 Types of Performance Tasks
1. Solving a Problem
• Complex authentic problems, current issues to be solved
2. Completing an inquiry
• science investigation, research-based activities, survey,
interviews, independent studies
3. Determining a position
• Case analysis, debate
4. Demonstration task
• cooking, earthquake safety procedures, setting-up the
microscope.
5. Developing exhibits
6. Presentation task
• story-telling, singing and dancing, musical play, theatre
7. Capstone performances
• Research paper, practice teaching, internships, or OJTs
3 Strengths and
Limitations
Strengths and Weaknesses of PBA
STRENGTHS
1. Integrates assessment with
instruction.
2. Learning occurs during assessment.
3. Provides opportunities for formative
assessment.
4. Tends to be more authentic than
other types of assessments
5. More engaging; active involvement
of students.
6. Provides additional way for students
to show what they know and can do.
7. Emphasis on reasoning skills.
8. Forces teachers to establish specific
criteria to identify successful
performance.
9. Encourages student self-assessment.
10. Encourages self-examination of
instructional goals.
WEAKNESSES
1. Reliability may be difficult to establish.
2. Measurement error due to subjective
nature of the scoring may be significant.
3. Inconsistent student performance
across time may result in inaccurate
conclusions.
4. Few samples of student achievement.
5. Requires considerable teacher time to
prepare and student time to complete.
6. Difficult to plan for amount of time
needed.
7. Limited ability to generalize to a larger
domain of knowledge.