Examples of this would be speaking in a foreign language or singing to the teacher. Product orientated assessment is a performance based assessment that requires student to research a topic of interest, create visuals, and present the material to a panel of educators. Portfolios are sometime considered a type of performance-based assessment. Since portfolios have been so extensively used and researched it will be discussed here as an alternative assessment of its own right. In performance based assessment, like most forms if alternative assessment, the students know the requirements at the beginning of the activity.
Teachers follow a rubric scale that they share with the students.
For further research on rubrics look for portfolios and other assessments written by Julia Jasmine and manufactured by Teacher created material. Often the student s score would be discussed the same day of assessment, along with feedback and progress. In addition to discussing he score set by the rubric, the teacher would immediately discuss progress, goal, and needed improvements. This gives teachers an insight in to the student s learning processes, which can be applied to further teaching of the student. It also opens communication lines and creates a personable level of comfort that is not found in traditional testing.