Performance and Formative Assessment
Performance assessment is an assessment given to a student for the student do in order to show the teacher that he/she knows how to perform the task given to them.
Formative assessment is an assessment given to the student so that the teacher can check for understand of information that they have given to the student.
My example of a performance assessment, if I understand this right, in relation to writing, would be me giving my 4th grade students a lesson on creative writing and words to use to grab a person's attention and words to use to get the readers imagination going on how a person looks, the setting of an event, and how the event takes place. I then give my students a writing prompt and ask them to either make up a story using the prompt, tell me about something that has happened to them, or tell me what they would have done differently or the same and why. The formative assessment would be while teaching the lesson, I ask for a thumbs up or down if the students understand the task given to them and if they don't understand, me explain it further and them give me a small quick example of what I mean about creative writing and words they should use.
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A little reminder that might help you remember the difference:
ReplyDeletePerformance assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
Example: Presentation, Research Paper, etc.
These are a long process assessment or "final".
Formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.
Example: Rough Draft Paper, Practice Presentation, "Thumb on table" to show understanding, etc.
These are a short and quick assessment.
Thank you.
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