The document discusses performance tasks. Performance tasks allow students to demonstrate what they know and are able to do in diverse ways, such as creating products or doing performance-based tasks. They involve students in the learning process individually or collaboratively over time. The purposes are to give students opportunities to demonstrate and integrate their knowledge, understanding, and skills in real-life situations and to encourage student inquiry and integration of knowledge in various contexts. Performance tasks prompt students to use higher-order thinking skills and are administered at the end of topics or units. They may result in products or performance-based tasks. Performance-based tasks require students to demonstrate mastery of skills and competencies by performing or producing something.