Abstract:The combination of increasing demands for accountability and the desire to measure a variety of complex educational outcomes makes the use of performance assessment am essential addition to the tools ...The combination of increasing demands for accountability and the desire to measure a variety of complex educational outcomes makes the use of performance assessment am essential addition to the tools used to profile student achievement. Performance assessment in education is valuable for student assessment and for the assessment of teacher and principal performance. Lessons learned to date in the practice of performance assessment include: (1) the need for clear targets; (2) the need for an array of assessment tools; (3) the need for training; (4) cost, time, and technical issues; and (5) issues associated with high-stakes testing, such as restricting curriculum, teaching to the test, and other negative effects. Educators find themselves in a dilemma, caught between the complex outcomes that require performance assessment and the prohibitive costs of such assessments. The instructional usefulness of performance assessment is currently limited, but making teachers partners in the assessmen.. process improves the quality of performance assessment and its instructional usefulness. A major unresolved performance assessment problem is that teachers do not have the training to use all that performance assessment offers. The nation does not appear to have the resources to solve this national problem. There is a 36-item list of references. One table summarizes applications of performance assessment in education. (SLD) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by ErRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** U.S. PEPANTMEMY OF euucrnoN Office et Educational Reeetnn one hhoro.emero EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER tERIC) c041111s document etatt teen fegnoduced as wowed from the person Or OnierhietiOn ohemetmg 4 r! Minor change twee been mEreka to mliprOve reProduCttort Oustity Pemte of wee 0. oputione stated intniadeCtr moot Op not necessonly receeseM otticiat Of RI motion or ooficy 'PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY 3uZ1771 R. 1947E4 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATION Judith A. Arter Richard J. Stiggins Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory 101 S.W. Main, Suite 500 Portland, CR 97204 (503)275-9500 Paper presented as pail of the symposium Performance Assessment Methods: What Can We Learn From Research In Other Professions, national meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 1992.Read More
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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