Performance-Based Assessment.

Performance-based assessments can “provide students with rich, contextualized, and engaging tasks and allow students to choose or design tasks or questions that are meaningful to them” (Lam, 1995, ¶ 9). Such individualization can help produce bias-free scores in a way that standardized tests cannot because the tasks can be used with students of varying learning experiences and backgrounds. Performance-based assessments allow instructors to use methods most appropriate for each student, which minimizes bias by considering extraneous factors in the assessment design that can affect student performance.