TExES Physical Education EC-12 Practice Exam

Assessing a student's ability to conduct tasks through a qualitative score is known as what type of evaluation?

1. Performance evaluation

2. Effort evaluation

3. Behavioral evaluation

4. Progress evaluation

The correct answer is: Performance evaluation

The correct response pertains to the assessment known as performance evaluation. This type of evaluation focuses on observing and judging a student's ability to perform specific tasks or skills, often in a physical education context. It emphasizes the quality of execution rather than merely dichotomous results like correct/incorrect or pass/fail. Performance evaluation involves qualitative measures, meaning the assessment looks closely at how well a student executes a task, including aspects such as technique, composure, and understanding of the activity. This is especially relevant in physical education, where nuanced skill performance is critical. Other types of evaluation mentioned can be differentiated: effort evaluation assesses the level of effort a student puts into a task, behavioral evaluation focuses more on observing specific behaviors rather than the outcome of skill execution, and progress evaluation looks at how much a student improves over time. Each of these has a distinct focus, but none encapsulate the qualitative measurement of task execution to the extent that performance evaluation does.