Performance Assessment

I like the section on how to create tasks for performance assessments because it reinforces the idea of meaningful homework. The criteria for these are very similar. They both require you to think about what you want to measure, if it is time and cost effective, and if it is clear. I like the idea of staying focused on what it is that you are measuring. This keeps from making the tasks too difficult for the students.
The only part of this website that concerned me is the part where is said the assessment should not just simply ask what the student has just learned. If you do something in class, then the students shouldn't be asked to do the same thing in their homework. What is confusing to me is that if you give students too much new information to cover at home it makes more room for misconceptions. Shouldn't the learning at home just be a continuation of what is covered in class? If the students are working on grammar in class, then to me the homework assigned should deal with grammar. Not just reiterating the same sentences that were covered in class, but in a different context. This is possibly what the author of the website was trying to say but it was not very clear.