PA-driven instructions afforded the experimental group a lot of teacher-guided discussions in the
classroom. These discussions generate lots of ideas and, therefore, enhanced the student’s understanding of the
problem at stake. Students appeared to be motivated towards their lesson when performance-driven instruction
was used. Performance-driven instruction also helped the students to solve problems step by step, thereby
causing the students’ interest in mathematics to increase.
This result confirms Fuchs et al. (1999) finding when they studied the effects of classroom-based
performance assessment-driven instruction. They found that students in PA-driven instruction classes
demonstrated stronger problem-solving skills than the comparison groups that were not PA-driven.