What is performance-based learning? Why performance-based learning? How to evaluate what the students learn and how well they know? These are the questions dealt with in this chapter. The answer could be to help students to understand and use in reality what they are learning. Through performance-based learning, students could experience not just learn new things. Learning strategies that students learn can be used in other areas in their school and outside life. It is related to "a student's ability to think knowledgeably about real-life problems." (p. 79). To do all these performance-based learning, teachers stick to the learning standards not to stray away without destination. ELD standards or TESOL standards will guide what learning objectives should be completed in school.
Accordingly the evaluation could assess all the process and stimulate students to learn through learning the way to learn. So the assessment methods should be changed from the traditional summative ways to formative ways with summative ways. Assessment methods to be used are rubrics, portfolio, teacher observation, and student self-evaluation and peer assessment. To help ELLs, schools have to diagnose and retest for redesignation students more accurately. Proper approach to each student and adequate teaching method with taking time is necessary to help students.
Response to Sunmi Kim
As Sunmi Kim mentioned, when students are assessed properly according to their development or content areas, assessment can be a helpful tool to monitor their own strength and weakness and to set a academic goal based on the results of the assessment. So, assessment should be considered as an important tool to enhance learning.
Diaz-Rico (2008) suggested a variety of assessment methods: Teacher-student created rubrics, teacher-constructed tests, portfolio assessment, teacher observation and evaluation, grading, and student self-assessment and peer assessment. (pp. 80-85) All these methods should be modified and adjusted to be a proper tool for enhancing learning.
Response to Miok Choi
As Miok Choi mentioned, teachers should understand not only standards but also students in order to offer the best environment in education. To make instructions more systematic and well-directed, standards like ELD should control whole teaching process and learners cultural, social, personal experiences should be considered to meet learning goals more easily.
As she cited, Diaz-Rico (2008. p.96) mentioned that tasks are rehearse communicative events that take place in the real world, usinf language that appears naturally in these events. It means teachers should consider how things learned in class could be used in learners' real world.
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