Performance Tasks

What are Performance Tasks?

Performance tasks (PT) require students to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and strategies by creating a response or a product. A performance assessment requires students to perform a task or generate their own responses.

What are some of the Characteristics of Performance Tasks?

Call for the application of knowledge and skills, not just recall or recognition.
Are open-ended and typically do not yield a single, correct answer.
Establish novel and authentic content.
Can integrate two or more 21st century skills

What will be administration format of the Performance Task?

The format of the PEP will be an “on- demand ” task meaning that it will be completed in a given amount of time. They will be administered under the supervision on the class teacher.

Who will create these Performance Task?

These performance tasks will be created by the Student Assessment Unit. They will be set to the grade-level and will be aligned to the National Standards Curriculum.

How are Performance Task scored?

Performance Tasks are typically evaluated using rubrics. Rubrics display indicators of performance on a selected evaluative criteria across a range of levels.