Abstract During a study on Drama performance assessment, the many challenges of the assessment environment and assessment conditions became evident, along with the rich benefits and opportunities that performance assessment brings. This paper investigates one senior secondary performance assessment task from each of the six school sites which are aligned to one of the critical issues that emerged as themes in the analysis of data. These critical issues identify performance as fundamental to Drama, establish students’ aspirations when performing, describe students’ motivations for their performance efforts, investigate the capstone nature of Drama performance tasks, evaluate performance as a form of formative assessment, and establish the audience’s role as an influencing factor on the assessment of Drama performances. This paper describes and problematises these critical issues, foreshadowing future areas for research in Drama assessment while allowing for new understandings of Drama performance assessment to be understood in the context of existing research.

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澳大利亚高中戏剧表演评估中的六个关键问题

摘要在对戏剧表演评估的研究中，评估环境和评估条件面临着许多挑战，表演评估带来了巨大的利益和机遇。本文研究了六个学校站点中每个站点的一项高级中学绩效评估任务，这些任务与数据分析中作为主题出现的关键问题之一保持一致。这些关键问题将表演视为戏剧的基础，确定表演时的志向，描述学生表演努力的动机，调查戏剧表演任务的基本特征，以形成性评估的形式评估表演，并建立观众的角色。影响戏剧表演评估的因素。