Performance-Based Assessment

November 6th, 2008

Today we discussed performance-based assessment and how teaching and assessment go hand in hand. Teaching is truly effective when followed by some sort of assessment, and assessment needs to be based on the information facilitated in order to be beneficial for the students. Performance-based assessment is when students demonstrate what they have learned by using various materials to create an activity or experiment. To demonstrate our understanding of this type of teaching strategy, our group uses salt water and a potato to create an experiment. We had three different beakers that contained water, we added a different amount of salt to each of the beakers with a piece of a potato in each. We made our observations and found out if there is enough salt in the water the potato will float.