Which is a characteristic of an effective performance-based assessment?

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Which is a characteristic of an effective performance-based assessment?

An effective performance-based assessment hinges on having the learner actually demonstrate a skill or complete a task. This shows not just what they know, but what they can do with it in a real or realistic setting. When the student performs, you can observe steps, decisions, and outcomes, and you can use clear criteria or rubrics to judge how well the task was done. This makes the assessment authentic and aligned with real-world expectations, and it provides concrete evidence of competency. In contrast, purely theoretical tasks don’t reveal how a learner applies knowledge in practice, and formats that rely on true/false questions or memory checks mainly measure recall or recognition, not the ability to perform.

An effective performance-based assessment hinges on having the learner actually demonstrate a skill or complete a task. This shows not just what they know, but what they can do with it in a real or realistic setting. When the student performs, you can observe steps, decisions, and outcomes, and you can use clear criteria or rubrics to judge how well the task was done. This makes the assessment authentic and aligned with real-world expectations, and it provides concrete evidence of competency.

In contrast, purely theoretical tasks don’t reveal how a learner applies knowledge in practice, and formats that rely on true/false questions or memory checks mainly measure recall or recognition, not the ability to perform.

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