Performance criteria

Assessment of Learning 2

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Activity

How does the event work?

Individual teams are given the same

building items – papers, scissors and tape,

nothing else!

The task is simple, to build the tallest

free standing structure that can support the

weight of the coins at it's tallest point for a

specified time (10 secs.).

Paper Tower

Activity

Criteria (Criterion)a standard on which a judgment may be based

are statements which identify “what really

counts” in the final output

Example:

Quality

Creativity

Comprehensiveness

Accuracy

Aesthetics

are the specific behaviors that student

should perform to properly carry out a

performance or produced a product

specific observable standards by which

student performances or products will be

assessed

specific measurable statements defining

performance required to meet learning

outcomes

Performance Criteria

specific

clearly stated

observable

Performance Criteria should be:

Where can we find Criteria the most?

RUBRICS

Performance criteria identify the qualities that

define good work.

Purpose

Features

Critique

Connections

Guidelines for Stating Performance Criteria

1.Identify the steps or features of the performance or

task to be assessed imagining yourself performing

it, observing students performing it or inspecting

finished products.

2.List the important criteria of the performance or

product.

3.Try to keep the performance criteria few so that

they can be reasonably observed and judged.

4. Have teachers think through the criteria as a

group.

5. Express the criteria in terms of observable student

behavior or product characteristics.

6. Avoid vague and ambiguous words like correctly,

appropriately, and good.

7. Arrange the performance assessment instruments

to use or modify them before constructing them.

Types of Performance Criteria

1. Impact of the performance

2. Work quality and craftsmanship

3. Adequacy of method and behavior

4. Validity of content

5. Sophistication of knowledge employed

Guidelines for Good Judging Criteria

1.Communicate essential achievement standards of

the assessed outcome(s)

2.Operationalized the outcome they intend to reflect

3.Apply across context that calls for similar behavior

4.Focus on current instruction, not prior learning

5.Observable

6.Essential for judging performance of the task

adequately

7.Communicate to others what constitutes

excellence

8.Appropriate for the students

Group cooperation 30%

- Unity as a group (no. of participating

members)

Creativity 40% - Tallest Tower

Quality 40%- Strongest tower

WINNING TOWER

Errors in performance-based assessment

Possible Errors

Personal bias

a tendency of a teacher to believe that some

students, ideas, etc., are better than others that

usually results in treating some people unfairly

Severity errors

is when the teacher favors the low performing

students in the class

Generosity errors

is committed when a teacher overrates the

performance of the students or favors the high

performing students in the class

Halo effects

is committed when judging individual

characteristics in terms of a general impression.

Prepared by:

Aira B. BustamanteED-33