Performance Assessments

Presentational assessments are polished, practiced and rehearsed presentations for an audience of listeners, readers, or viewers.  With this mode, students becoming increasingly aware of the audience and how to communicate in a culturally appropriate way, including use of more formal, stylized language as appropriate.  For these assessments students use their resources (dictionaries, books, notes, etc.) to develop an oral or written presentation that is highly accurate in grammar and spelling.

These assessments require students to understand spoken and written Spanish.  As students advance in their language learning, they move from understanding the gist to picking up details, using context clues rather than just translating.  Students learn to predict, guess and use structures to aid meaning.

.In this mode students communicate successfully with another person or persons in an unrehearsed situation.  This mode is characterized by spontaneous conversation in which participants must actively negotiate meaning.

 

Presentational Assessments

InterpretiveAssessments

Interpersonal Assessments