Performance Based and Traditional Assessment
Performance Based and Traditional Assessment
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Performance- Based assessment is where learners must use more complex, higher-order
thinking skills. It requires students to perform in realistic situations. Students participate in
specific tasks, interviews, or performances that are appropriate to the audience and setting.
Rubrics is provided so learners know their expectations it is used to evaluate students on
multiple competency levels. On the other hand, traditional assessment are “tests” taken with
paper and pencil that are usually true/false, matching, or multiple choice. These assessments
are easy to grade, but only test isolated application, facts, or memorized data at lower-level
thinking skills. Traditional assessment provides little evidence of what a language learner
actually can do with the language. Generally, performance- based assessment requires creativity
while traditional assessment method is a pure knowledge based.