PRODUCT BASED ASSESSMENT

Product-Oriented Assessment

-an alternative form of assessment that moves away from traditional paper and pencil tests.

- In which the actual students’

performance is assessed through a product.

Product-Oriented Learning Competencies

Products – include a wide range of students works that target specific skills

Examples of Product based:

•books (fables, cook books, stories, flip-flop books, accordion books, scrolled books, big books, cartoons, autobiographies, biographies)

•wall display (story train, collage, poster, ad, bulletin board, exhibition)•Essay•computer game, board game, card game•Projects•multimedia presentation•portfolios•poster presentation

-a scoring tool outlining required criteria for a piece of work, or what is important to assess. It also indicates the weighting that has been determined for each criterion, based on its relative importance to the overall task, and describes what the performance would look like at different quality levels.

Features4

Expert

3

Accomplished

2

Capable

1

Beginner

Quality ofWriting

Piece was written in an extraordinary style and voice

very informative and well organized

Piece was written in an interesting style and voice

Somewhat informative and organized

Piece had little style or voice

Gives some new information but poorly organized

Piece had no style or voice

Gives no new information and very poorly organized

Grammar, Usage &Mechanics

Virtually no spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors

Few spelling and punctuations errors, minor grammatical errors

A number of spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors

So many spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors that it interferes with the meaning

Areas of Assessment 1 2 3 4Ideas Presents ideas

in an original manner

Presents ideas in an consistent manner

Ideas are too general

Ideas are vague or unclear

Organization Strong and organized beg/mid/end

Organized beg/mid/end

Some organization; attempt at a beg/mid/end

No organization; lack beg/mid/end

Understanding Writing shows strong understanding

Writing shows clear understanding

Writing shows adequate understanding

Writing shows little understanding

Word Choice Sophisticated use of nouns and verbs make essay very informative

Nouns and verbs make essay informative

Needs more nouns and verbs

Little or no use of nouns and verbs

Sentence Structure

Sentence structure enhances meaning; flows throughout piece

Sentence structure is evident; sentences mostly flow

Sentence structure is limited; sentences need to flow

No sense of sentence structure or flow

Mechanics Few (if any) errors

Few errors Several errors Numerous errors