2. Definition Performance • “Performance is what human beings are about every day of their lives” (Turner, 1982). • “Performances are situated events defined by five specified elements inferred from Carlson (1996): place, time, script, participants, and audience” (Walker, 2000). • Performance entails work that requires students to apply knowledge and skills in authentic contexts (Wiggins, 1993).
3. Performance-based Instruction vs Conventional Instruction • Application (Practice) • Application by doing • Situated contexts • Simulate real-world experience • Authentic • Can be applied to real world setting • Engaged actively in tasks to solve real-world problems • Active, creative learning • Teacher models and facilitates • Learning skills (Theory) • Memorization of facts and details • Skills covered in isolation • School assignments • Inauthentic • Don’t transfer to real-world • Solve contrived problems • Passive learning • Teacher transmits information
