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Give four advantages and four disadvantages of performance test as an assessment method

Give four advantages and four disadvantages of performance test as an assessment method.

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Simon
Advantages
• It provides an opportunity for the examiner to test the learner in a realistic setting.
• Allows the examiner to observe and take individual performance in a task.
• Provides an opportunity to observe and test attitude and responsiveness of the learner to the total situation.
• Provides an opportunity to test students’ ability to bring together a number of different skills in a way which is difficult for a written test.
Disadvantages.
• Performance tests are expensive because one examiner can only examine a maximum of ten students per day.
• Performance tests cannot be used effectively for large groups.
• It can only test a small portion of the total syllabus.
• It lacks objectivity in marking because they suffer from intrusion of irrelevant factors.
• Well sufficient equipment is not available, performance test results in equal examination conditions thus making the comparison of the results invalid.
skilled writter answered the question on April 24, 2018 at 18:34

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