It can occasionally become difficult to find projects that truly engage students and that reinforce didactic principles as well. Other challenges that are associated with performance based assessment include the pecuniary costs, as well as significant amounts of time, that are associated with coming up with alternative assessment measure. Creating and designing tests for students to complete are cost-effective, fairly quick ways of measuring a student's knowledge at a given moment in time regarding a particular subject. Consequently, many administrative officials and state level educational personnel whose jobs it is to measure the most effective usage of monetary resources for schools prefer such assessment methods, and claim that alternative methods are more costly and not necessarily even worth the time and money to create or implement.
However, even Wiggins himself notes that at the district level, the funding for performance based assessment is not inordinately expensive, particularly when such a district utilizes its own personnel resources to come up with performance based assessments. Additionally, it seems fairly apparent that performance based assessments are more indicative of how students will be assessed within the professional world. When one considers that one of the primary functions of education is to prepare students for success in the professional world, it seems that performance based assessments should be utilized more throughout school systems.
