Escolar Documentos
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Complex
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Authentic
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Process/product-oriented
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Open-ended
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Time-bound
Normally, students are presented with an open-ended question that may produce several different correct
answers (Chun, 2010; McTighe, 2015). In the higher-level tasks, there is a sense of urgency for the
product to be developed or the process to be determined, as in most real-world situations.
After brainstorming a few different scenarios, we settled on a situation where the students would decide if
an inmate should be granted parole or remain in prison. This scenario included five key components:
Setting
Role
Audience
Time frame
Product
(See the Public Comments Session example below.)
Task
You are Ashley's former probation officer, and the warden requested that you attend the Public Comment
Session. You have been asked to review the following documents and present your opinion: Should
Ashley be released from prison early or stay for the remainder of her sentence? You have been
granted three to five minutes to speak to the review board. Your speech must be short, but detailed with
strong evidence to support your decision.
Documents
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Letter to the parole board from the inmate's mother and son
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I welcome your thoughts about performance-based assessments in the comments section below.
Notes
Chun, M. (2010, March). "Taking teaching to (performance) task: Linking pedagogical and
assessment practices." Change: The Magazine of Higher Education.