"Like doctoral candidates with university dissertations," write the authors, in performance assessments "students often defend their projects and papers before panels of judges, who rigorously evaluate them against high standards; students typically revise their work until they meet the standards." The suggestion in this report (42 page PDF) is that performance assessments can (and should) replace more traditional (and test-based) assessments of high school graduates. On the one hand, I agree. Performance assessments would be a better measure. But they would also add more assessment on a system already overloaded with assessment. They would consume too much time and require more resources than the schools could provide. Where we are actually headed with this is automated performance assessment.
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