· Discuss a question or confusion from reading Module 28
I don’t have any questions directly from the reading, as this chapter was very easy I think because, as students, we have all done these things before. However, why do most teachers use rubrics and not these other types of evaluation? In my experience, most teachers use rubrics and not many other types of evaluation.
· 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?
Performance assessment is different from other types of assessment because it makes students carry out some activity or develop some product, whereas the other types of assessment happens once (either planned or spontaneous) and either helps the student and teacher, or just the teacher. Performance assessment in my content area, Spanish, might look like a project using a specific verb tense. Students may create a script for a commercial for a product using a lot of that verb tense and then have to do an oral presentation performing the commercial in front of the class. I could assess learning through the performance of the oral presentation by seeing how the student is developing his/her language skills through speaking them and how the student wrote the script.
A lot of teachers use rubrics because they're a really clear way to grade. It gives specifics for how many points students get, and it's an easy way for the teacher to grade, and a student to see why they got the grade they did. It also is a nice set up for students to see what's expected of them, so they can work hard to achieve a better grade. I always really appreciated getting rubrics before projects, because I know exactly what the teacher is looking for.
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