Staff at Your School Have Decided to Include Performance Assessment

question 19

Essay

Staff at your school have decided to include performance assessment as one of the main assessment techniques to be used by all teachers. You have been selected to give a talk to members of the School Council in which you explain:
-The meaning of performance assessment.
-The perceived benefits and challenges of this technique.
-What considerations need to be addressed in developing assessment tasks.
What will you say?

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Definitions:

Correlation Matrix

A table showing the correlation coefficients between variables, indicating the level and direction of the relationship between them.

Multiple Regression Model

A statistical technique that uses several explanatory variables to predict the outcome of a response variable.

Insignificant Variables

Variables in a statistical model that do not significantly influence the outcome of the model.

Step-wise Regression

A method of fitting regression models in which the choice of predictive variables is carried out by an automatic procedure.