Introduction
Performance tasks are designed for students to demonstrate their ability to think
and reason and apply higher-order skills. In ELA performance tasks, a student reads
speech. This book of performance tasks are in line with the science and social studies
content of the Jamaican National Standards Curriculum. Presented here is a bank of
performance tasks for you, the teacher, which is designed to enhance your repertoire
conceptual aim and a practical aim.
The conceptual aim of the bank is to encourage you to scrutinize the assessment
procedures you use in class and examine to what extent these procedures enable you
in an on-going process. In addition, the bank of performance tasks is designed to
promote your understanding that teaching, learning and assessment are intertwined
and interdependent in the teaching/learning process.
that could be used in the classroom, either “as are” or through adaptation to your
When designing the following performance tasks, our main concern was ensuring
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to write to us with any suggestions for changes and/or adaptations they think
appropriate.