Equipped for the Future Assessment Report: How Instructors Can Support AdultLearners through Performance-Based Assessment

摘要

Equipped for the future (EFF) is a standards-based system reform initiative aimedat improving the quality and outcome of the adult literacy and lifelong learning delivery system. It helps adult learners apply the basic academic skills to real life situations, build problem solving and thinking skills, and develop strong interpersonal skills. In order to measure student performance relative to challenging content and performance standards, a performance-based assessment is developed. This paper gives instructors a guide on the characteristics of performance-based assessments for the classroom; examples of performance-based assessment methods; describes how to evaluate or score student performance; describes how to develop performance-based assessment tasks and prepare students for them; and discusses the role of the performance-based assessment for purposes of instruction and accountability.