Performance Evaluation And Development Of Students

"For every student's development" is the core idea of the new fundamentalcurriculum reformation, which requires change from the old education evaluationsystem that focused more on "discrimination and selection" to the new one that"focuses on individual developments". The new curriculum reformation broughtforward three elementary goals, i.e., "knowledge and skill", "process and method"and "emotion, attitude and values", that built up the target of new curriculumreformation evaluation and became the guiding ideology of educational evaluationpractice.Performance Assessment is a series of trials used to measure learners'ability touse learned knowledge to solve new problems or to complete specific tasks. There areno uniquely correct or best answers. Performance Assessment is a quality assessmentmethod in order to evaluate students' potentials and learning ability. It emphasizesparticularly on assessing the students' advanced thinking ability and the ability ofusing knowledge to solve actual problems.This paper starts from the theoretical researches, and studies a large number ofdomestic and overseas documents. The author had a profound understanding of thehistory of Performance Assessment, and grasped accurately the basic theory ofPerformance Assessment and its characteristics. A few cases are used to analyze howPerformance Assessment affects students' development, The cases are: New YorkBanquezwill School ninth grade "Western Civilization" course tasks; Peine SecondaryFulton Valley Preparatory School "the Design of Humanities Courses" and "a story ofthe student who succeed in the assessment". When the author used the PerformanceAssessment to assess students, she also used the standardized tests to assess studentsand compare them in the way how they promote students' developments. By doingthese she discovered that Performance Assessment has a greater advantage overstandardized tests in assessment of students advanced thinking ability, emotion,attitude and values.