Performance-Based Assessment: Advantages and Disadvantages

Please title this Reflective Essay, “Performance-Based Assessment: Advantages and Disadvantages” Use the following questions to reflect on Class 6, making connections to what you have learned this week. Refer to the grading rubric in the Course Information section of Blackboard: Refer to Advantages and Disadvantages of Performance-Based Assessment on pages 230-234 (W). List and explain three advantages of performance-based assessment, using your own words. Include an example for each point. What are your thoughts on the disadvantages of performance-based assessment? How can teachers overcome some of these challenges? Do you agree with the current trend in our field to use performance-based assessment to measure young children’s progress? Why? or Why not? How will this week’s discussion influence how you assess children’s learning in your own classrooms? What connections did you make between your prior experiences and reading / forum discussions of this week? Include your thoughts about these and other questions in your Reflective Essay (see below). After you have completed all the assignments for this class, think about the guiding questions and reflect on what you have learned.Submit your Reflective Essay using the link above.