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Isaacs, T., Zara, C., Herbert, G., Coombs, S. J. & Smith, C. (2013). Performance-based assessment. In The SAGE key Concepts Series: Key concepts in educational assessment (pp. 103-105). London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781473915077.n33

Isaacs, Tina, Catherine Zara, Graham Herbert, Steven J. Coombs and Charles Smith. "Performance-Based Assessment." In Key Concepts in Educational Assessment, 103-105, The SAGE Key Concepts Series. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013. doi: 10.4135/9781473915077.n33.

Isaacs, T, Zara, C, Herbert, G, Coombs, S J & Smith, C 2013, 'Performance-based assessment', in Key concepts in educational assessment, The SAGE Key Concepts Series, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 103-105, viewed 15 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781473915077.n33.

Isaacs, Tina, et al. "Performance-Based Assessment." Key Concepts in Educational Assessment. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013. 103-105. SAGE Knowledge. Web. The SAGE Key Concepts Series. 15 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781473915077.n33.

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Performance-Based Assessment
Performance-based assessment

Educational assessment criteria related to judging complex and authentic performance-based assessment were proposed in the USA and defined as a set of standards (AERA, APA and NCME, 1999) linked to the following definition: ‘Performance assessments: product- and behaviour-based measurements based on settings designed to emulate real-life contexts or conditions in which specific knowledge or skills are actually applied’ (p. 179).

Gipps (2012: 10) stresses that an important feature of performance-based assessment is that by ‘aiming to model the real learning activities that we wish pupils to engage with, for example written communication skills and problem-solving activities … assessment does not distort instruction’.

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