They may require flexible time frames, open-ended formats, and collaboration with peers. Performance assessments are often referred to as alternate assessment approaches. In performance assessments, the emphasis is on what students can do as well as what students know. Awareness of self and careers. Problem solving on the job.
Students work in pairs and small groups.
For example, students learn about employers' uses and expectations of application forms by role-playing as employers who judge completed applications and who make hiring decisions. Each module in Pathways contains performance assessments. Students judge whether or not applicants are well matched, on specified criteria, to the advertised positions, and whether they, themselves, are well matched to the positions. The module on employment writing contains an application form as an assessment measure, while in the interview module, one assessment is a simulated employment interview. The module on solving problems on the job and the module on anger management contain assessment measures consisting of realistic scenarios for which students generate a number of solutions and then evaluate those solutions.