Mod 28 Blog

Blog Post 2

• Discuss a question or confusion from reading Module 28

I was a little confused about all the different types of rubrics. They all kind of seem the same, each with multiple criteria and how well it was met. Also I don’t really understand what situation each type would be best for.

• Performance assessment is important for most of you because you are assessing a performance or action of some kind. How is this kind of activity different from other kinds of assessment? What might performance assessment look like in your content area and how, specifically, might you assess learning through performance?

I think performance assessment is different from other assessments since the student is actually using their knowledge to produce something other than answers on a test. They are doing something or creating something to show what they learned. In my field of dietetics, I think performance assessments are really all I can do. I cannot give formal exams or quizzes because it is not a school setting. What I can do though, is assess performance based on the patient goals. If they want to lose weight by cutting some unhealthy foods out of their diet, I would assess them on if they do lose that weight and how much unhealthy food they actually cut out of their diet. We would set checkpoints in the overall goal and I would be able to judge how well they reached that checkpoint or how long it took. However, I am not giving grades for these performances. I will continue to work with the patient until they deem it necessary to go their own way. If I notice them struggling, it is my job to provide other solutions and advice to help them with their short term and long term goals.