Question 8 (Free Response)
Based on your experience in the classroom, what do you understand to be drawbacks of performance assessments?

 
Answer Number of
Respondents
Percent
time constraint and the amount of material that needs to be covered. performance assessments take a lot of time which could be used to cover more topics. also, some how one has to make sure that the student is doing the work. otherwise the assessment doesn't mean anything. 1 6.7%
hard to assess, more time taken 1 6.7%
performance based assessments can be more time consuming at the beginning. 1 6.7%
time consuming, if presentations are shared with the class/ grading/ coming up with good ideas for such performance assessments 1 6.7%
assessments need to be made and changed according to the class and what is to be evaluated. 1 6.7%
having used just the small amount of performance assessment i have found it to be time consuming and frustrating as to my knowlege of the actual weighing of points per assignment. 1 6.7%
just being sure everything you want to evaluate is evaluated. not letting personal opinions interfere with scoring. 1 6.7%
often they are a longer term project which is difficult for younger students to get use to. they may take a longer time to present or to read. 1 6.7%
if they are taken home or done in a group the parent may do the work or one child in the group may not help in the project. 1 6.7%
like all tasks some will not put forth the effort and do a good job. the child will settle for a lower grade because of the requirements are less. 1 6.7%
they take so much time to evaluate. they are subjective. since you often can't evaluate them all at one sitting, they may not be evaluated consistently. 1 6.7%
subjective; help form parents 1 6.7%
they are much more difficult to grade. as long as we are stuck with giving a's, b's, c's, etc., performance assessments are not as practical as pen/paper assessments. 1 6.7%
larning how to make tham and making sure that they are really assesing what needs to be 1 6.7%
familiarity! the parents will have to be educated also. 1 6.7%