ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on 10 types of performance-based assessment: oral presentations; debates/speeches; role playing; group discussions; interviews; portfolios; exhibitions; essays; research papers; and journals/student logs. The student’s goal in an oral presentation is to verbally teach classmates what she has learned after researching a particular topic or skill. Debates are especially great to use when the concept being taught is ambiguous or allows for multiple perspectives. Role playing can involve having a person assume the role of a character from a novel to demonstrate how he would react to situations the character had to experience. One method for getting meaningful group discussions is the use of the Socratic Method. Students often imagine teachers as being the expert in our given discipline.
