Research on Performance Assessment of Thinking Development Based on the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome Theory(SOLO)
The performance assessment of thinking development integrates the assessment into the comprehensive practical ac-tivities of thinking development,and portrays the level of thinking development through students'performance in the process of com-pleting constructive tasks.Based on the theory of Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome(SOLO),this study maps the use of think-ing skills to the process of constructive problem solving,provides a framework for the performance assessment of thinking development in the three key areas of goals-tasks-criteria,and finally discusses the elements and procedures of the design of performance assess-ment for thinking development by taking the performance assessment of computational thinking for primary school students as a case study.The main contribution of the study is that the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome theory is used to portray the continu-ous cognitive process of thinking,decompose the performance tasks and set the assessment criteria,so as to establish a framework for performance assessment of thinking development,and the feasibility of the assessment framework has been demonstrated through the empirical study.The future study can explore the integration of thinking development and performance assessment of the disciplines with the application of the integrated practical activities of the disciplines advocated by the new curriculum standard,and support the extraction and processing and analysis of assessment behavioural data by means of voice and image recognition,machine learning,and other methods,so as to realize the combination of performance assessment and concomitant feedback,and thus bring into play the de-velopmental value of performance assessment.
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