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Performance Assessment and Authentic Assessment: A Conceptual Analysis of the Literature

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Abstract

Performance assessment and authentic assessment are recurrent terms in the literature on education and educational research. They have both been given a number of different meanings and unclear definitions and are in some publications not defined at all. Such uncertainty of meaning causes difficulties in interpretation and communication and can cause clouded or misleading research conclusions. This paper reviews the meanings attached to these concepts in the literature and describes the similarities and wide range of differences between the meanings of each concept. Accessed 54,055 times on https://pareonline.net from April 11, 2008 to December 31, 2019. For downloads from January 1, 2020 forward, please click on the PlumX Metrics link to the right.

Keywords: Test Construction

How to Cite:

Palm, T., (2008) “Performance Assessment and Authentic Assessment: A Conceptual Analysis of the Literature”, Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation 13(1): 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/0qpc-ws45