Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Authentic Ways to Develop
Performance-Based Activities
- Introduction
- Students participate
in performing tasks
or activities that are
meaningful and
engaging.
- Purpose
- To help students acquire
and apply knowledge,
practice skills, and develop
independent and
collaborative work habits.
- Benefits
- Active students absorb and
understand the material at
a much deeper level.
- Assesment
- Complex and
time-bound.
- Expectations
- Creativity and
Innovation
- Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving
- Communication and
Collaboration
- Clear Expectations
- Performance-based
activities can be challenging
- They need to understand
from the beginning
exactly what is being
asked of them and how
they will be assessed.
- Observation
- To provide students with
feedback to improve
performance.
- Presentations
- One way to have students
complete a performance-based
activity is to have them do a
presentation or report.
- Basis for the presentation
- Providing information
- Teaching a skill
- Reporting progress
- Persuading others
- Students may choose to add visual aids
to help illustrate elements.
- Portfolios
- They can include items that students have
created and collected over a period.
- Reflections can be included too
- Some professors have students select those items they feel
represents their best work to be included in a portfolio.
- Benefit
- Students can use them later in their academic careers.
- Performances
- It can take time, so there must be
a clear pacing guide
- Developing the criteria and the rubric and sharing
these with students before evaluating a dramatic
performance is critical.
- Projects
- Commonly used by
teachers as
performance-based
activities.
- May require students to apply
their knowledge and skills
while completing the assigned
task
- Can be aligned with the higher
levels of creativity, analysis,
and synthesi
- Jornals may be part of a
performance-based
assessment.
- To record student reflections.
- Exhibits and Fairs
- It allows students to
display their work.
- Students work on a product or
item that will be exhibited publicly.
- Exhibitions
- Show in-depth learning
- May include feedback
- Students might be required to
explain or defend their work
- Fairs
- Could include the possibility of
prizes and awards.
- Debates
- Skills
- Research, media and argument literacy, reading
comprehension, evidence evaluation, public
speaking, and civic skills.
- Formats
- Fishbowl
- Students form a half circle (face to face)
- Debate a topic
- The rest of the classmates pose questions..
- Mock trial
- Teams representing the prosecution and
defense take on the roles of attorneys and
witnesses.