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Can Performance-Based Assessments Improve Urban Schooling? ERIC Digest Number 56.
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Ascher, Carol – 1990
Performance-based assessment has the potential to support a richer curriculum and more accurately assess the skills of low-income minority students than standardized tests. Performance-based assessment has the following advantages: (1) it allows a wide range of expression; (2) it permits assessment of learning in a natural context while students…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Innovation, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education