Practical assessments evaluate skills and behaviors in real-world contexts, providing reliable comparisons among peers. They demonstrate both performance and knowledge effectively, particularly when integrated with professional discussions. However, without careful management, earlier errors may escalate, potentially affecting overall performance during the assessment.

1. PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT
Mohamed Shebin
Central University of Tamil Nadu

3. PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT
• practical assessments are used to assess skills
and behaviors, and work best where the task
is “live” and as close to the real world as
possible. Well-designed assessments can
assess a full range of skills.
• practical assessments are a solid and reliable
form of assessment, that can be compared
across a peer group.

4. ADVANTAGE
• Practical assessments show clear evidence of
skills and behavior performance, as well as
evidencing knowledge. It is also an
assessment method that links well with
professional discussions as part of a synoptic
assessment to bring out the underpinning
knowledge
• Simply “I see you do it – do you know why you
do it?”

5. RISK OF THIS ASSESSMENT METHOD
• If the assessment isn’t well managed,
particularly where tasks are linked, earlier
errors can compound or escalate, causing the
apprentice to underperform throughout the
entire assessment. As the assessor, you will
need to plan carefully and decide how you
might intervene/manage the process where
this is required, in a way that is fair and
consistent across all your assessments and in
different settings.

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