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Lam, Tony C. M. – 1995
Performance assessment is a type of educational assessment in which judgments are made about student knowledge and skills based on observation of student behavior or inspection of student products. In dealing with the issue of fairness in performance assessment, educators are confronted with some dilemmas. Assuring equality in performance…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Performance Factors
Stiggins, Richard J. – 1995
Not since the development of the objective paper and pencil test early in the century has an assessment method hit the American educational scene with such force as has performance assessment methodology in the 1990s. Performance assessment relies on teacher observation and professional judgment to draw inferences about student achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria