What is a product-oriented learning assessment?

Product-oriented learning assessments focus on evaluating the results of a learning process. Meeting a criteria becomes the basis for the learning assessment.

Product-oriented or summative learning assessments ask students or workers to complete a task. The evaluator then rates the students' or workers' results based on a criteria. This type of evaluation provides evidence of a person's competency in completing a task. For example, a worker is tested on handling cash. To pass the evaluation, the worker needs to be within a $5.00 margin and complete the task within 30 minutes. Product-oriented assessments do have one drawback: they don't evaluate the depth of the worker's knowledge.